Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Life

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Welsh, John

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis