Motivational Quotes

Life

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Daniel Akst

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Pliny The Elder

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

Ciardi, John

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hanks, Tom

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Woody Allen

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

James, William

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann