Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Coriolanus III

Best Quotes about Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

11.

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

Presser, Ross

12.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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 Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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 flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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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 life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.