Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Steve Jobs

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Cousteau, Jacques