Motivational Quotes

Life

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Life

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Santayana, George

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.