Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

- Truman Capote

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Presser, Ross

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Shakespeare, William

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Coriolanus III

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay