Motivational Quotes

Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Fieldes, Christopher

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Proverb, German

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

James, William