Motivational Quotes

Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

James, William

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Larkin, Philip

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

29.

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

Heath, David M.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir 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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred