Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Austen, Jane

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barrymore, John

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

10.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

11.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

12.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Woody Allen

14.

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

John Lennon

15.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

16.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Allen, Fred A.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

24.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

25.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

26.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

27.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

28.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hume, David

30.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

32.

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

33.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

34.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

35.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

36.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

37.

Live poor so you can die rich.

38.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

39.

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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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wickett, Michael

43.

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 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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

46.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

47.

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

Samuel Butler

48.

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

Santayana, George

49.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Lebowitz, Fran