Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

John Lennon

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ovid

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Moses, Grandma

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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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