Motivational Quotes

Life

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Proverb, Scottish

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Michelangelo

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

35.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Coriolanus III

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