Motivational Quotes

Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

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

William Shakespeare

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Havel, Vaclav

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wickett, Michael

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Samuel Butler

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul