Motivational Quotes

Life

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

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

Michelangelo

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Blake, William

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Connolly, Cyril

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hayes, Helen

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Wickett, Michael

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

James, William

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

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

Antrim, Minna

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Nouwen, Henri

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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 is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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