Motivational Quotes

Life

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

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

Tomlin, Lily

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mark Hodder

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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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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 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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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 an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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 much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Samuel Butler

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Heath, David M.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice