Motivational Quotes

Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

- Nouwen, Henri

Best Quotes about Life

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Norris, Kathleen

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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