Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Norris, Kathleen

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Truman Capote

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

James, William

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

Heath, David M.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Brendan Gill

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.