Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Prochnow, Herbert

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Duncan, Isadora

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Linkletter, Art

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Forster, Edward 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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wickett, Michael

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Erhard, Werner

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Menander of Athens

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

Socrates

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

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.