Motivational Quotes

Life

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

- Hoggart, Simon

Best Quotes about Life

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Lawrence, D. H.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Dawson, Roger

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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 about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Norris, Kathleen

33.

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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

40.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Douglas, Michael

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De