Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Heath, David M.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Stoppard, Tom

10.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

12.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

13.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

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

Blake, William

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

Brendan Gill

17.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

18.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

23.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

24.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

25.

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

26.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

27.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

30.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

31.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

34.

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

Truman Capote

35.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

38.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Dickens, Charles

40.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

41.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

42.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

43.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

44.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.