Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Eliot, T. S.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lennon, John

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Mark Hodder

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.