Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Fields, W. C.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Heath, David M.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

10.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Isaac Asimov

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

23.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William