Motivational Quotes

Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

- Ackerman, Diane

Best Quotes about Life

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Fieldes, Christopher

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Gauguin, Paul

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

McMillan, Terry

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Santayana, George

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

May, Rollo

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Caesar, Sid

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Foreman, George

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.