Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Horace

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

30.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Socrates

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

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Leacock, Stephen B.