Motivational Quotes

Life

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

- Delacroix, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

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

Coriolanus III

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Berenson, Bernard

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Dickens, Charles

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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

11.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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.

18.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

19.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

20.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

27.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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

30.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Hume, David

33.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Horace

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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

45.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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