Motivational Quotes

Life

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Wolfe, Thomas

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Welsh, John

10.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, 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 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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Lebowitz, Fran

23.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

30.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Havel, Vaclav

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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

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

Gurney, Robert

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Orben, Robert

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill