Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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.

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

18.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

19.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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 is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

26.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Blake, William

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

34.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.