Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Samuel Butler

Best Quotes about Life

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

Debevoise, P. L.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

28.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

James, William

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.