Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

- Brooke, Rupert

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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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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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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

26.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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)

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

31.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

42.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

43.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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