Motivational Quotes

Life

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Giles, Henry

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Miller, Henry

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Pliny The Elder

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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 a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Pope John XXIII

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Kempton, Murray