Motivational Quotes

Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Life

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kennedy, John F.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coriolanus III

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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

May, Rollo

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

30.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

32.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Horace

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Seneca

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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