Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gurney, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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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 is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horton, Doug

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

35.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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