Motivational Quotes

Life

I think we're here for each other.

- Burnett, Carol

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Nash, Ogden

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Persian

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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