Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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 horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Powell, Robert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Moses, Grandma

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Michelangelo

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.