Motivational Quotes

Life

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Best Quotes about Life

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Baluch, Joy

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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 wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

33.

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

Michelangelo

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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 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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Mountain, Marian

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Norris, Kathleen