Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Erickson, Lou

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

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

Keller, Helen

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Forster, Edward M.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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

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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

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William