Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cabell, James Branch

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

Osler, Sir William

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Bible

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare