Motivational Quotes

Life

Live, let live, and help live

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Canetti, Elias

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

12.

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

Rogers, Will

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

14.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

16.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

17.

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

Simon, Neil

18.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

19.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

20.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

26.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

31.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

32.

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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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)

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.