Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Benet, Stephen Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bachelard, Gaston

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Robert Heinlein

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

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

Ciardi, John

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Carson, Johnny

10.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

11.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

12.

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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

18.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

22.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

26.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

32.

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

Hewitt, George T.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

34.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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

39.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Aristotle

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

Eliot, T. S.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis