Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Dante Alighieri

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.