Motivational Quotes

Life

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Kant, Immanuel

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Burns, George

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

William Goldman

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Simon, Neil

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Dane, Frank

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Horace

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.