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

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

Seneca

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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 catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Baluch, Joy

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

William Goldman

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Erhard, Werner

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques