Motivational Quotes

Life

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Field, Joanna

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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

11.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

23.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

24.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Ciardi, John

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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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Wickett, Michael

31.

Live poor so you can die rich.

32.

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

33.

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

William Goldman

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

37.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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

39.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

43.

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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

45.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel