Motivational Quotes

Life

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Michelangelo

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret