Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Pope John XXIII

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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 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

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

24.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

30.

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

Antrim, Minna

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is a dead-end street.