Motivational Quotes

Life

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

- Norris, Kathleen

Best Quotes about Life

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

13.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

14.

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

Burns, George

15.

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

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

18.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

19.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Kornfield, Jack

22.

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

Hume, David

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

30.

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

31.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

32.

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

33.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

34.

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

35.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

39.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

40.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

43.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

45.

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

Eliot, T. S.

46.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando