Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Connolly, Cyril

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Byron, Lord

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Simon, Neil

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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

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Tomlin, Lily

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

James, William

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie