Motivational Quotes

Life

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

- Hanks, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Aristotle

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Gellert

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

37.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo