Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Life

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Orben, Robert

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

10.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

12.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

13.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

15.

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

16.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

17.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

18.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

20.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

21.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

22.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

23.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

25.

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

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

27.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

29.

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

Leno, Jay

30.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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

33.

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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

46.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

49.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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