Motivational Quotes

Life

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simon, Neil

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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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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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Herold, Don

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Socrates

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin