Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

10.

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

Menander of Athens

11.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

14.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

15.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

18.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

21.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

23.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

25.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

27.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

28.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

31.

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

32.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

33.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

36.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

45.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

49.

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

50.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret