Motivational Quotes

Life

Life too near paralyses art.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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 do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

19.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Herold, Don

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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 person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Dickens, Charles

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Welsh, John

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan