Motivational Quotes

Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Kempton, Murray

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Horace

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mark Hodder

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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 web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Newman, Peter C.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Michelangelo

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare