Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Dryden, John

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.