Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Norris, Kathleen

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Isaac Asimov

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

30.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

31.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

32.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

34.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

35.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Fulghum, Robert

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Tomlin, Lily

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Herold, Don

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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