Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Augustine, St.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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 moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

18.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

29.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

John Lennon

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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