Motivational Quotes

Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

10.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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 not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Nash, Ogden

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Blake, William

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William