Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

30.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

James, William

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.