Motivational Quotes

Life

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Life

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Carson, Johnny

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Linkletter, Art

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Hume, David

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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 a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Truman Capote

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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.