Motivational Quotes

Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kempton, Murray

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

William Shakespeare

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Mountain, Marian

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

11.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

12.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

13.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

14.

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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

19.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

20.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

21.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

27.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Gurney, Robert

29.

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

30.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Lennon, John

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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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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

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

Robert Heinlein

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Antrim, Minna

43.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis