Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Seneca

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Hume, David

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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