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

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Ovid

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Harington, Donald

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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 an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Michelangelo

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De