Motivational Quotes

Life

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

- Fieldes, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

10.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

11.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

12.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

13.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

14.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

15.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

16.

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

17.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

22.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

23.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

Barrymore, John

25.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

26.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

27.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

28.

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

Kempton, Murray

29.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

30.

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

31.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

32.

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

Alacia Bessette

33.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

34.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

35.

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.

36.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

38.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

40.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

41.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cook, Robert A.

45.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

46.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

47.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

49.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus