Motivational Quotes

Life

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Antrim, Minna

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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 hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul