Motivational Quotes

Life

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Life

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Austen, Jane

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

33.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

James, William

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Boese, Paul

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Those who live are those who fight.