Motivational Quotes

Life

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Marcos, Imelda

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

James, William

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Lennon, John

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

William Shakespeare

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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.