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

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Goldman

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Pope John XXIII

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert