Motivational Quotes

Life

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Tomlin, Lily

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Markiewicz, William

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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 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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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