Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

- Schmaltz, David A.

Best Quotes about Life

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

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

Norris, Kathleen

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Tomlin, Lily

10.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

15.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kennedy, John F.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Santayana, George

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

30.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Michelangelo

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

Heath, David M.

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Making a life comes before making a living.