Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Best Quotes about Life

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Herold, Don

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Woody Allen

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Coallier, Steven

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

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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 a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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 like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

47.

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

William Shakespeare

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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