Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Powell, Robert

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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 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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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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

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

23.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Angelou, Maya

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is just a bowl of pits.