Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

- Thornton Wilder

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Connolly, Cyril

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Herold, Don

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

Coriolanus III

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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

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

Santaguida, Paul

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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