Motivational Quotes

Life

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Tomlin, Lily

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare