Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Pope John XXIII

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Thibodeau, Robert

29.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kornfield, Jack

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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

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

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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

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.