Motivational Quotes

Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Larkin, Philip

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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