Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

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

John Lennon

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Hume, David

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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

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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

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Socrates

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

Lehrer, Tom

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.