Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Truman Capote

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

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Piatt, Don

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Rogers, Carl

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

James, William

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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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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Epicurus

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Canetti, Elias

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter