Motivational Quotes

Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

John Lennon

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Santaguida, Paul

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

25.

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

Proverb, Scottish

26.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

33.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

34.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

35.

Live poor so you can die rich.

36.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Dane, Frank

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

41.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Pepper, Claude D.

44.

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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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

46.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Shields, Carol

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.