Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Temple, Sir William

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Scottish

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

10.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Truman Capote

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

34.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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 is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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

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

Powell, Robert

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Lennon, John

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb