Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Baluch, Joy

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Mark Hodder

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

10.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

11.

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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

16.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

17.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

18.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

19.

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

20.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Horace

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

25.

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

Shields, Carol

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Kant, Immanuel

28.

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

Caesar, Sid

29.

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

Aristotle

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

34.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

35.

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

39.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

40.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

41.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

43.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

44.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

45.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

47.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell