Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Johnson, Samuel

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Epicurus

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Dickens, Charles

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.