Motivational Quotes

Life

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

- Pirandello, Luigi

Best Quotes about Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

10.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

12.

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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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

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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

19.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

20.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

21.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

22.

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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

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

25.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

28.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

30.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

32.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

33.

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

Mark Hodder

34.

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.

35.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

36.

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

Shields, Carol

37.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rogers, Carl

39.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

42.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

43.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

44.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

45.

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

Santaguida, Paul

46.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

47.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

48.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

49.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.