Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

- Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

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

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Menander of Athens

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

Angelou, Maya

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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Daniel Akst

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker