Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Moses, Grandma

3.

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

Erickson, Lou

4.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

5.

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

Dickens, Charles

6.

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

7.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

8.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

9.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

10.

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

11.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

12.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

13.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

14.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

17.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

20.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

22.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

23.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

24.

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

Leno, Jay

25.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

26.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

27.

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

Santayana, George

28.

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

Proverb, German

29.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

30.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

32.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

34.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

35.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

37.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

38.

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

39.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.