Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

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

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

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

Steve Jobs

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robert Heinlein

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Boese, Paul

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Lennon, John

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Shields, Carol

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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