Motivational Quotes

Life

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Life

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

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Mccarthy, Mary

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

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

10.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

11.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

12.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

14.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

17.

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

18.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

21.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

23.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

24.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

25.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

26.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

28.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

29.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

31.

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

May, Rollo

32.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

33.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

34.

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

Lehrer, Tom

35.

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

Alacia Bessette

36.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

40.

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

Steve Jobs

41.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

45.

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

Hume, David

46.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.