Motivational Quotes

Life

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

- Prochnow, Herbert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Presser, Ross

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Epicurus

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Johnson, Samuel

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination