Motivational Quotes

Life

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Michelangelo

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Ciardi, John

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Landers, Ann

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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 God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Temple, Sir William

39.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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