Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lin-Chi

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Brendan Gill

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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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

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Nash, Ogden

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Butler, Philip

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.