Motivational Quotes

Life

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Linkletter, Art

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.