Motivational Quotes

Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Carlyle, Thomas

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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 like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Dickens, Charles

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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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 a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Crisp, Quentin

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Austen, Jane