Motivational Quotes

Life

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Socrates

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

Michelangelo

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Temple, Sir William

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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