Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Foreman, George

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

11.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

12.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Proverb, Scottish

15.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

16.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

18.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

26.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

28.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

32.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

36.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

37.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

42.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

43.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

44.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

45.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

46.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

49.

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

Kempton, Murray

50.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les