Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Giles, Henry

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Hayes, Helen

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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

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice