Motivational Quotes

Life

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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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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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Herold, Don

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Lennon, John

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Ciardi, John

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield