Motivational Quotes

Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Kornfield, Jack

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Nouwen, Henri

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs