Motivational Quotes

Life

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nouwen, Henri

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Michelangelo

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Welsh, John

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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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

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston