Motivational Quotes

Life

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Hume, David

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Santayana, George

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Barrymore, John

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ovid

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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