Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Kempton, Murray

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Socrates

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

Fields, W. C.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Austen, Jane

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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