Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Norris, Kathleen

Best Quotes about Life

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Ciardi, John

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya