Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Berenson, Bernard

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Aristotle

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Byron, Lord

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Menander of Athens

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Lehrer, Tom

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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