Motivational Quotes

Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Life

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

10.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Hanks, Tom

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

18.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

21.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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.

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Canetti, Elias

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

39.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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

42.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

45.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Austen, Jane