Motivational Quotes

Life

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Life

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

11.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

12.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

17.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

21.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

22.

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

23.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

30.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

31.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

32.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

35.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

37.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

44.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry