Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lin-Chi

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Antrim, Minna

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

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

Byron, Lord

10.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

12.

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

William Goldman

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Santayana, George

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare