Motivational Quotes

Life

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Best Quotes about Life

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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

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

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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 a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Antrim, Minna