Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Herold, Don

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Camus, Albert

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

28.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

32.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

William Goldman

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Dane, Frank

40.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Ward, William A.

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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 just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan