Motivational Quotes

Life

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Norris, Kathleen

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Calhoun, John C.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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