Motivational Quotes

Life

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

- Prochnow, Herbert

Best Quotes about Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Forster, Edward M.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Foreman, George

11.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

12.

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

Santaguida, Paul

13.

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

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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

15.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

16.

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

Brendan Gill

17.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

19.

Making a life comes before making a living.

20.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

21.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

22.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

26.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

27.

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

28.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

29.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

31.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

32.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

33.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

34.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

35.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

37.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

38.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

39.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

40.

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

Havel, Vaclav

41.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

46.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

47.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

48.

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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