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 is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Maclaren, Alexander

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

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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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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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII