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

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

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

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Butler

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

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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 life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha