Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Boese, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

McMillan, Terry

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

36.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

43.

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 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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there