Motivational Quotes

Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Santayana, George

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

30.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

45.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey