Motivational Quotes

Life

All great art is born of the metropolis.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Piatt, Don

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Carson, Rachel

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

12.

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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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 an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

36.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.