Motivational Quotes

Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Feidelson, Charles

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Camus, Albert

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

John Lennon

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo