Motivational Quotes

Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Life

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

Wright, Steven

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

18.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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 journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Michelangelo

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes