Motivational Quotes

Life

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

18.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

28.

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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

34.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.