Motivational Quotes

Life

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Thibodeau, Robert

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Santayana, George

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry