Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Samuel Butler

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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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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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Byron, Lord

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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