Motivational Quotes

Life

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Carson, Johnny

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya