Motivational Quotes

Life

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Proverb, Indian

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Austen, Jane

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Blake, William

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria