Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Life

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

James, William

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Shields, Carol

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Rogers, Carl

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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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

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Barrymore, John

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

Aristotle

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

Steve Jobs

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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 good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.