Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Herold, Don

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

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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 indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Klee, Paul

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Dickens, Charles

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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