Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Heath, David M.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

William Shakespeare

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Camus, Albert

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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 action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul