Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Crisp, Quentin

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Making a life comes before making a living.

40.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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