Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Best Quotes about Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Wickett, Michael

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Santayana, George

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Heath, David M.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Isaac Asimov

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes