Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dimnet, Ernest

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Calhoun, John C.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Pasternak, Boris

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

10.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Coriolanus III

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

May, Rollo

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Keller, Helen

18.

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

Menander of Athens

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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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

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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 like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

John Lennon

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

49.

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

Shields, Carol

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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