Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Ben Stein

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James, William

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ciardi, John

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Boese, Paul

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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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