Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Wright, Steven

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

19.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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 a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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

26.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

45.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hanks, Tom

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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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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