Motivational Quotes

Life

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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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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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert