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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Life Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Life

1.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Pasternak, Boris

2.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Camus, Albert

3.
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman

4.
Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

5.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Lamartine, Alphonse De

6.
Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
Lieberman, Gerald F.

7.
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Marcos, Imelda

8.
People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
Giles, Henry

9.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Mumford, Lewis

10.
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

12.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Menander of Athens

13.
My life is a battle.
Voltaire

14.
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

16.
Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.
Baluch, Joy

17.
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
Stoppard, Tom

18.
Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
Proverb, Italian

19.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Weil, Simone

20.
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.

21.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Dickens, Charles

22.
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

23.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Brodsky, Joseph

24.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
Cabell, James Branch

25.
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

26.
In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.
Sizoo, Joseph R.

27.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

28.
Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Allen, Woody

29.
It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz

31.
My art and profession is to live.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
Camus, Albert

33.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
Blake, William

34.
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

35.
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

36.
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
Fields, W. C.

37.
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
Santayana, George

38.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Delacroix, Eugene

39.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
James, William

40.
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
O'Neill, Eugene

41.
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
Jacobs, Jane

42.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
Rilke, Rainer Maria

43.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent

44.
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
Pilgrim, Peace

45.
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Percy, Walker

46.
Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

47.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley

48.
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

49.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

50.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
Barrymore, John


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