Motivational Quotes

Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

- Nisami

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Mark Hodder

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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 world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Aristotle