Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Proverb, Scottish

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Norris, Kathleen

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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

11.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Aristotle

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

31.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

34.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor