Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Norris, Kathleen

Best Quotes about Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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 is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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 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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Simon, Neil

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Dane, Frank

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.