Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Foreman, George

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

10.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

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

Shields, Carol

12.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

13.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

14.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

15.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

16.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

17.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

20.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

21.

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.

22.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

23.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

26.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

29.

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

30.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

31.

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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

34.

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

35.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

36.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

38.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

39.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

40.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

42.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

46.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

47.

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

Ciardi, John

48.

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

Michelangelo

49.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin