Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

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

13.

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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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

28.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

29.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

31.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

34.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Fran Lebowitz