Motivational Quotes

Life

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Mountain, Marian

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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

14.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

26.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hanks, Tom

34.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Camus, Albert

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh