Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Wise, Alfonso The

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

William Shakespeare

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Moses, Grandma

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.