Motivational Quotes

Life

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Life

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

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erhard, Werner

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

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

Dante Alighieri

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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.

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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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

14.

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

Mountain, Marian

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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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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

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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 is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ciardi, John

31.

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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michelangelo