Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Epicurus

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

Clark, Frank A.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Antrim, Minna

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Robert Heinlein

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret