Motivational Quotes

Life

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Best Quotes about Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Alacia Bessette

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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 is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

10.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

11.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

13.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

14.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

15.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

16.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

17.

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

18.

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

Wright, Steven

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

20.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Mark Hodder

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

32.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

34.

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

Duncan, Isadora

35.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Live poor so you can die rich.

39.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

40.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

43.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

44.

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

45.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

46.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

49.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert