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Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

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

Larkin, Philip

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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)

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dyer, Wayne

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

10.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

11.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

12.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

15.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

16.

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

Blackie, Professor

17.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

18.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

19.

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

Douglas, Michael

20.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

22.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

26.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

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

Mark Hodder

29.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

30.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

31.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

32.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

33.

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

Michelangelo

34.

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

35.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

37.

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

Markham, Edwin

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

40.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

45.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

46.

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

47.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

48.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

49.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack