Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Seneca

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Ciardi, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Pope John XXIII

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.