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

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ciardi, John

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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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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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.