Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Heath, David M.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Ciardi, John

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.