Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

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

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.