Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

- Reed, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Lennon, John

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Lehrer, Tom

16.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

27.

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

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

Powell, Robert

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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