Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Santayana, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Santayana, George

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin