Motivational Quotes

Life

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Life

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Foreman, George

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Byron, Lord

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

Orben, Robert

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Antrim, Minna

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

40.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison