Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Prochnow, Herbert

Best Quotes about Life

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

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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

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

Santayana, George

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y