Motivational Quotes

Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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.

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

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Austen, Jane

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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 a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

14.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

15.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

19.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

21.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

23.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

24.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

25.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

26.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

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

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

30.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

31.

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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

34.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

35.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

39.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

40.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

41.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

42.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

46.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

47.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Lebowitz, Fran