Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Life

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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

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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

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

19.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Leno, Jay

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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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

33.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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.

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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