Motivational Quotes

Life

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Leno, Jay

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Michelangelo

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Lennon, John

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher