Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Austen, Jane

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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