Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Camus, Albert

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Camus, Albert

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Isaac Asimov

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Dane, Frank

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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 at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.