Motivational Quotes

Life

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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 like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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