Motivational Quotes

Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

- Claypool, Les

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Temple, Sir William

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Boese, Paul

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Hume, David

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.