Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Life

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

11.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

13.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

14.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

15.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

18.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

19.

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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

21.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

26.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

27.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

30.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

31.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Leno, Jay

33.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

34.

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

36.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

40.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

47.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

49.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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.