Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

Santayana, George

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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

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Samuel Butler

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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 dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich