Motivational Quotes

Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

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

Allen, Fred A.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

13.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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