Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Young, J. Z.

Best Quotes about Life

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Franklin, Benjamin

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Herold, Don

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Giles, Henry