Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Brendan Gill

Best Quotes about Life

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

14.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

16.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

17.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

18.

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

Antrim, Minna

19.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Carson, Johnny

24.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

27.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

28.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

30.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Cousteau, Jacques

34.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

35.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

36.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

43.

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

Welsh, John

45.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.