Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Larkin, Philip

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gurney, Robert

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Tomlin, Lily

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

44.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles