Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Socrates

11.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

12.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Antrim, Minna

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Menander of Athens

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.