Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

- Wally'Famous'Amos

Best Quotes about Life

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

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Gurney, Robert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

21.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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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.

27.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

29.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Proverb, Persian

33.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

34.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.