Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Gauguin, Paul

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Santayana, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James