Motivational Quotes

Life

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Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Horace

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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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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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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Shakespeare, William

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma