Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Carson, Rachel

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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 can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Bacon, Francis

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

James, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

37.

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Wright, Steven

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.