Motivational Quotes

Life

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

13.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Herold, Don

17.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

18.

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

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

21.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

23.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

24.

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

25.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

26.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

29.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

31.

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

Huxley, Aldous

32.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

34.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

40.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.