Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

- Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Best Quotes about Life

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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

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

Presser, Ross

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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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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

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Kant, Immanuel

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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 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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

James, William

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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