Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Forster, Edward M.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Simon, Neil

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna