Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Larkin, Philip

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mead, Margaret

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

10.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

11.

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

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

23.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Canetti, Elias

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

34.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.