Motivational Quotes

Life

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

- Calvino, Italo

Best Quotes about Life

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

To a wise man every day is a new life.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

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

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Horton, Doug

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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 drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Hanks, Tom

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo