Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Simon, Neil

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Dante Alighieri

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

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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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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.