Motivational Quotes

Life

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Heath, David M.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Presser, Ross

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George