Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Carson, Rachel

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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Goldman

12.

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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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

15.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

16.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

31.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

33.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

34.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

35.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Broun, Heywood

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Making a life comes before making a living.

44.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane