Motivational Quotes

Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Connolly, Cyril

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isaac Asimov

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Austen, Jane