Motivational Quotes

Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Proverb, Persian

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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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 purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish