Motivational Quotes

Life

The city is recruited from the country.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

12.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

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 really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

18.

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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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

20.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

21.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

23.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

25.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

28.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

29.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

30.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

31.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

32.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

33.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

34.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

40.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Dane, Frank

44.

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

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

48.

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 catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

50.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell