Motivational Quotes

Life

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Life

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

11.

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

Forster, Edward M.

12.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

19.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

20.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Hume, David

24.

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

Kornfield, Jack

25.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

26.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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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

28.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

29.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

30.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

33.

Live poor so you can die rich.

34.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Simon, Neil

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

47.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

48.

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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis