Motivational Quotes

Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

- Child, Julia

Best Quotes about Life

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

Truman Capote

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Austen, Jane

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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

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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

21.

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

Dickens, Charles

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

29.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

44.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor