Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Tomlin, Lily

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Steve Jobs

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

10.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

11.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

14.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

15.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

16.

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

James, William

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

18.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

19.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

24.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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

Camus, Albert

27.

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

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

29.

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

Isaac Asimov

30.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

31.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

32.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

33.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

34.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

35.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

36.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

39.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

40.

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

41.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

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

Landers, Ann

43.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

45.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

46.

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

Coallier, Steven

47.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

48.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

49.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

50.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher