Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Giles, Henry

10.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

11.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

12.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

15.

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

Carson, Rachel

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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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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

21.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

27.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

28.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Mead, Margaret

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

37.

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

Michelangelo

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Presser, Ross

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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

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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

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Butler, Philip

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John