Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Prochnow, Herbert

Best Quotes about Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Blake, William

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Linkletter, Art

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Dante Alighieri

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Michelangelo

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul