Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

11.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

12.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pliny The Elder

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Aristotle

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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 is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

25.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

32.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Dawson, Roger

34.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

40.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

48.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo