Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

William Shakespeare

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Gurney, Robert

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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 journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca