Motivational Quotes

Life

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

John Lennon

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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.

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Simon, Neil

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.