Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Heath, David M.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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

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

Proverb, Indian

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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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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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.