Motivational Quotes

Life

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Life

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

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ciardi, John

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Samuel Butler

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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

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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 like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh