Motivational Quotes

Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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.

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

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Baluch, Joy

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David