Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Prochnow, Herbert

Best Quotes about Life

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Welsh, John

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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