Motivational Quotes

Life

All great art is born of the metropolis.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Life

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

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

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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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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Giles, Henry

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Robert Heinlein

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.