Motivational Quotes

Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Camus, Albert

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

McMillan, Terry