Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Life

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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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 is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hayes, Helen

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Moses, Grandma

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.