Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Cioran, E. M.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

John Lennon

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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 a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Oprah Winfrey

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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