Motivational Quotes

Life

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

- O'Reilly, Radar

Best Quotes about Life

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.

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

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Allen, Fred A.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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

13.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

May, Rollo

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

21.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

22.

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

McMillan, Terry

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Ciardi, John

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria