Motivational Quotes

Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Seneca

11.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

James, William

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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 comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Norris, Kathleen

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.