Motivational Quotes

Life

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Best Quotes about Life

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

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

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

Bible

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Michelangelo

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Keller, Helen

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Giles, Henry

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Fields, W. C.