Motivational Quotes

Life

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Fieldes, Christopher

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Hume, David

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

Isaac Asimov

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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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

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Aristotle

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

Carson, Johnny

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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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