Motivational Quotes

Life

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Michelangelo

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

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Caesar, Sid

10.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

11.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Tomlin, Lily

13.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

17.

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

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

21.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

25.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

27.

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

Kant, Immanuel

28.

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

Mountain, Marian

29.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

30.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

31.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

50.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying