Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Kempton, Murray

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Wickett, Michael

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Aristotle

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

17.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

22.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

27.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

28.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

31.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

36.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Truman Capote

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!