Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Epicurus

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

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

Live poor so you can die rich.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Simon, Neil

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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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

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lin-Chi

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.