Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Making a life comes before making a living.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

McMillan, Terry

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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 a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl