Motivational Quotes

Life

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

- Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Best Quotes about Life

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

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kant, Immanuel

10.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

11.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

15.

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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

19.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

20.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

21.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

25.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

27.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

29.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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

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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

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

35.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

James, William

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

38.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

39.

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

Platen

40.

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

46.

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

49.

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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Live poor so you can die rich.