Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Facult, F. Paul

Best Quotes about Life

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

Live poor so you can die rich.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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 -- 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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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 City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.