Motivational Quotes

Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dyer, Wayne

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Hanks, Tom

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Butler, Samuel

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

42.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Santayana, George

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De