Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Gauguin, Paul

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Norris, Kathleen

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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 is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Foreman, George

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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.