Motivational Quotes

Life

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

- Hewitt, George T.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Wilde, Oscar

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

11.

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

12.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

13.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

17.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

18.

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

19.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

20.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

21.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

24.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

25.

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

Hume, David

26.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

27.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

28.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

31.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

33.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

36.

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

Hanks, Tom

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

38.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

42.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

45.

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

Coallier, Steven

46.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

48.

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

49.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

50.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas