Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Maclaren, Alexander

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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 person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tomlin, Lily

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!