Motivational Quotes

Life

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Antrim, Minna

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

Havel, Vaclav

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Pliny The Elder

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Mead, Margaret

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.