Motivational Quotes

Life

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Wilde, Oscar

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Byron, Lord

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Mark Hodder

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle