Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Life

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

10.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

11.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

12.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

14.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

17.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Field, Joanna

19.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

20.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

22.

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

23.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

24.

Live poor so you can die rich.

25.

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

Duncan, Isadora

26.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

28.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

29.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

30.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

35.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Harington, Donald

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

44.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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

46.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

47.

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

Herold, Don

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

49.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lennon, John