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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Lehrer, Tom

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Camus, Albert

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Hanks, Tom

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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 indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Samuel Butler

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, Indian