Motivational Quotes

Life

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Life

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

12.

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

Samuel Butler

13.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

14.

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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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

23.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

25.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

27.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

28.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

30.

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)

31.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

33.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

34.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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 great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren