Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Baluch, Joy

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kempton, Murray

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wright, Steven

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Duncan, Isadora