Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Connolly, Cyril

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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 person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Horace

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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