Motivational Quotes

Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Life

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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 fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

William Goldman

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

Ward, William A.

33.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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 city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord