Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

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

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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 is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De