Motivational Quotes

Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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 is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Presser, Ross

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Hume, David

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret