Motivational Quotes

Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

- Calhoun, John C.

Best Quotes about Life

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Newman, Peter C.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Menander of Athens

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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's but a day at most.

Burns, George

13.

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

Kempton, Murray

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Camus, Albert

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Shakespeare, William

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Caesar, Sid