Motivational Quotes

Life

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

- Louis Schwartzberg

Best Quotes about Life

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Herold, Don

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

10.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

11.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

13.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

15.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

16.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

17.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

18.

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

19.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

20.

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

21.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

22.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

23.

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

24.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

25.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

26.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

27.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

28.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

29.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

30.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

32.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Foreman, George

34.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

35.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

36.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

37.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

Aleichem, Sholom

39.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

40.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

41.

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

Hayes, Helen

42.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

44.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

45.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

46.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

47.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

49.

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