Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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 series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Hodder

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Shields, Carol

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.