Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Life

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

May, Rollo

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Prochnow, Herbert

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

11.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

12.

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

Giles, Henry

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

19.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Santayana, George

33.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

37.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

44.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

James, William

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les