Motivational Quotes

Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

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

Norris, Kathleen

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

William Shakespeare

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

11.

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

Markiewicz, William

12.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Piatt, Don

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

18.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

19.

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

Powell, Robert

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Carson, Rachel

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

31.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

32.

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

Samuel Butler

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

43.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Austen, Jane

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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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