Motivational Quotes

Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Billings, Josh

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Ben Stein

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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Calhoun, John C.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.