Motivational Quotes

Life

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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 web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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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

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

33.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

William Goldman

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.