Motivational Quotes

Life

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

- Skynard, Lynard

Best Quotes about Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

11.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

12.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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

14.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

15.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

18.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

19.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

20.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

21.

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

23.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

24.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

26.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

27.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

28.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

29.

Live poor so you can die rich.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

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.

34.

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

Samuel Butler

35.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

36.

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

Havel, Vaclav

37.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Keller, Helen

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

40.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

41.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

44.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

45.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

48.

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

Fran Lebowitz

49.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)