Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

12.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Dante Alighieri

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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 art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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