Motivational Quotes

Life

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

- Mills, C. Wright

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

McMillan, Terry

11.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

12.

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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

24.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

25.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

36.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia