Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Life

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

Salisbury, Harrison

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Aristotle

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

19.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Simon, Neil

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

45.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Frankl, Viktor E.