Motivational Quotes

Life

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Walpole, Horace

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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 like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dane, Frank

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Brendan Gill

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De