Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Truman Capote

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Mark Hodder

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Fran Lebowitz

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.