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

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

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Cervantes, Miguel 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 difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ben Stein

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Aristotle

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.