Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Santayana, George

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Pepper, Claude D.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Wright, Steven

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein