Motivational Quotes

Life

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Life

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Steve Jobs

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Austen, Jane

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Landers, Ann

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha