Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

May, Rollo

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

Crisp, Quentin

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Heath, David M.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Platen

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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

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

Mountain, Marian

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Austen, Jane