Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Field, Joanna

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

Herold, Don

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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

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

Dawson, Roger

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

19.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Antrim, Minna

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

35.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Crisp, Quentin