Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kornfield, Jack

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

10.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

14.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

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

Carson, Rachel

16.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

17.

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

18.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

19.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

20.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

21.

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

22.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

23.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

24.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

26.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

27.

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

28.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

29.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

31.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

32.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

33.

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

Mark Hodder

34.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

35.

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

Southey, Robert

36.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

37.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Blackie, Professor

40.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

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

Seneca

42.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

43.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

44.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

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

Eliot, T. S.

46.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

47.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

48.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

49.

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

50.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas