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

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Ben Stein

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Heath, David M.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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)

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

38.

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

Michelangelo

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

Seneca

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.