Motivational Quotes

Life

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

- Field, Joanna

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Tomlin, Lily

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

12.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

13.

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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Truman Capote

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

24.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

28.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Proverb, Persian

45.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

48.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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