Motivational Quotes

Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

- Galiani, Ferdinando

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

May, Rollo

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

21.

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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

23.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Making a life comes before making a living.

45.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gurney, Robert

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir