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

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

10.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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