Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Mark Hodder

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

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

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

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Menander of Athens

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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 just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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 should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

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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

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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