Motivational Quotes

Life

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Bible

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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.

33.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Wolfe, Thomas