Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Life

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

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epicurus

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

41.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

42.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall