Motivational Quotes

Life

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Carson, Rachel

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Markham, Edwin

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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

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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

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Shields, Carol

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

James, William

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Woolf, Virginia

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest