Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

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

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Forster, Edward M.

10.

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

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

12.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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

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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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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Lady R.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

23.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

24.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

25.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

31.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

34.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

40.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

41.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Butler, Samuel

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato