Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

11.

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

Dante Alighieri

12.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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

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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Michelangelo

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

Eliot, T. S.

32.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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 live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bacon, Francis

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.