Motivational Quotes

Life

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Life

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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

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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 lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Austen, Jane

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

Piatt, Don

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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! 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

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh