Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Santayana, George

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

Pasternak, Boris

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Harington, Donald

10.

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

Walpole, Horace

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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

12.

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

Kempton, Murray

13.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

14.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

15.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

16.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

17.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

18.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

23.

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

24.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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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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.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

30.

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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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

35.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

39.

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

40.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

41.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Austen, Jane

43.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

48.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art