Motivational Quotes

Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

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Best Quotes about Life

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Menander of Athens

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Hayes, Helen

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt