Motivational Quotes

Life

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

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

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

10.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

11.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

13.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ward, William A.

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Augustine, St.

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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.