Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Truman Capote

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Linkletter, Art

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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.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wright, Steven

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

Field, Joanna

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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 is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Menander of Athens

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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 life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver