Motivational Quotes

Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

- Child, Julia

Best Quotes about Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gauguin, Paul

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Cabell, James Branch

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Menander of Athens

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

Robert Heinlein

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Mountain, Marian

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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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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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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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 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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard