Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Boulanger, Nadia

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

William Shakespeare

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, Indian

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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 art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.