Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

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

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Proverb, Indian

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Butler, Samuel

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

19.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

22.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

28.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Huxley, Aldous

30.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Gellert