Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Life

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

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Field, Joanna

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Presser, Ross

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Leno, Jay

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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 like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.