Motivational Quotes

Life

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

- Rexford, Eben Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

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

Debevoise, P. L.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Truman Capote

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Byron, Lord

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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