Motivational Quotes

Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Temple, Sir William

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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

11.

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

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

18.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

21.

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.

22.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

27.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

29.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

30.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

33.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

34.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

49.

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

50.

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

Wright, Steven