Motivational Quotes

Life

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

25.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Simon, Neil

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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