Motivational Quotes

Life

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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Best Quotes about Life

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, Indian

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

18.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Lennon

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Butler, Samuel

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Pope John XXIII

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando