Motivational Quotes

Life

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

- Mills, C. Wright

Best Quotes about Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Butler, Philip

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lin-Chi

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von