Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

10.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

13.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

14.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

18.

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

Michelangelo

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

20.

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 is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

22.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

23.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

24.

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

William Goldman

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

29.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

30.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

31.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

33.

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

Coriolanus III

34.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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

46.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

47.

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

48.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus