Motivational Quotes

Life

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

- Lorca, Federico Garcia

Best Quotes about Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Eliot, T. S.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

34.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Pliny The Elder

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry