Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

William Shakespeare

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Camus, Albert

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

James, William

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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 dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

McMillan, Terry

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David