Motivational Quotes

Life

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Goldman

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Carson, Rachel

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 full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

12.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

13.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

21.

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

James, William

22.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Presser, Ross

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

Connolly, Cyril

30.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

34.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

46.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

47.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

48.

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)