Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Bacon, Francis

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Foreman, George

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Horace

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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