Motivational Quotes

Life

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

10.

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

Santayana, George

11.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Austen, Jane

13.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

18.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

19.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

20.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

21.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

22.

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

James, William

23.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

24.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

25.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

26.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

28.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

30.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

31.

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

32.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

33.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

34.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Allen, Fred A.

37.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

39.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

40.

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

Herzen, Alexander

41.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

42.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

44.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

45.

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

46.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

47.

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

48.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

49.

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

50.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales