Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Forster, Edward M.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Live poor so you can die rich.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Santayana, George

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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