Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fieldes, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

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.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Coallier, Steven

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Moses, Grandma

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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 is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Socrates

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

30.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

33.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Temple, Sir William

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

50.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von