Motivational Quotes

Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Tomlin, Lily

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Gable, Clark

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Carson, Johnny

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Herold, Don

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Powell, Robert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Keller, Helen

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret