Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Sizoo, Joseph R.

Best Quotes about Life

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Oprah Winfrey

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Einstein, Albert

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

11.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

12.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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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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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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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

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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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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Mountain, Marian

27.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Austen, Jane

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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.

34.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

35.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

36.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

43.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

48.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.