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

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Miller, Henry

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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 like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Ciardi, John

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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