Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

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

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

43.

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

Larkin, Philip

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

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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

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst