Motivational Quotes

Life

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

- Heath, David M.

Best Quotes about Life

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Dante Alighieri

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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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

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

Michelangelo

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Antrim, Minna

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch