Motivational Quotes

Life

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

- Seeley, Sir John Robert

Best Quotes about Life

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Ciardi, John

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

21.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.