Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fieldes, Christopher

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Thibodeau, Robert

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Mark Hodder

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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's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Pliny The Elder

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Michelangelo

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher