Motivational Quotes

Life

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

- Pasternak, Boris

Best Quotes about Life

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Ward, William A.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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

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

John Lennon

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Brodsky, Joseph