Motivational Quotes

Life

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Life

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

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

Larkin, Philip

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

John Lennon

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Simon, Neil

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Blake, William

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Bible

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

Kennedy, John F.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren