Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

William Shakespeare

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer