Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

25.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Canetti, Elias

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

33.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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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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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 are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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