Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fieldes, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

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

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

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

14.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

18.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Steve Jobs

24.

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

McMillan, Terry

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

James, William

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

Wickett, Michael

41.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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