Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

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

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Horace

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Butler, Samuel

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

32.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

43.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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