Motivational Quotes

Life

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simon, Neil

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Socrates

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

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia