Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Socrates

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

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Foreman, George

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Wright, Steven

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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 is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Barrymore, John

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo