Motivational Quotes

Life

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

- Shinn, Florence Scovel

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Larkin, Philip

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Ciardi, John

10.

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

11.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

12.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

13.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

14.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

15.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

16.

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

17.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

18.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

19.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

20.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

21.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

22.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

23.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

28.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

30.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

31.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

32.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

33.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

34.

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

Forster, Edward M.

35.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

39.

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

Gable, Clark

40.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

41.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

42.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

43.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

44.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

45.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

46.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

48.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

50.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome