Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Powell, Robert

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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 like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Coriolanus III

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.