Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Butler, Samuel

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Wright, Steven

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

20.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

39.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.