Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Prochnow, Herbert

Best Quotes about Life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dryden, John

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Coriolanus III

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Mountain, Marian

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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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.