Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Lennon, John

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

Ciardi, John

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Austen, Jane

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

Pliny The Elder

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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

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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