Motivational Quotes

Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

- Erhard, Werner

Best Quotes about Life

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Truman Capote

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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

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Allen, Fred A.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Lin-Chi

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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