Motivational Quotes

Life

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kennedy, John F.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Simon, Neil

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Newman, Peter C.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey