Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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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

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Pasternak, Boris

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark