Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Blake, William

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Feidelson, Charles

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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 too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Making a life comes before making a living.