Motivational Quotes

Life

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

- Raban, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Life

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

Johnson, Samuel

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Samuel Butler

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

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Ben Stein

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Santayana, George

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David 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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt