Motivational Quotes

Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fieldes, Christopher

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Walpole, Horace

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

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

Michelangelo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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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

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Wickett, Michael

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Hume, David

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Feidelson, Charles

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!