Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Markham, Edwin

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Heath, David M.

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.