Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

- Henry J. Tillman

Best Quotes about Life

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Live poor so you can die rich.

35.

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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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling