Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Isaac Asimov

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Truman Capote

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

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

10.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

11.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

14.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

15.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

17.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

21.

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

22.

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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

25.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

31.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Gurney, Robert

33.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

35.

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

36.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

37.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

40.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

42.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

43.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

45.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

46.

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

47.

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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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Cioran, E. M.