Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Life

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Stoppard, Tom

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Herold, Don

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Dickens, Charles

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Giles, Henry

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

James, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

36.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.