Motivational Quotes

Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

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

Seneca

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

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Santayana, George

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Heath, David M.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Coriolanus III

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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 never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition