Motivational Quotes

Life

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

- Butler, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

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

Kempton, Murray

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Osler, Sir William

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!