Motivational Quotes

Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

McMillan, Terry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Antrim, Minna

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Carson, Johnny

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell