Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Life

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Waitley, Denis

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Seneca

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

William Shakespeare

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

Simon, Neil

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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 is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

34.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Horace

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Byron, Lord

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf