Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

11.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Powell, Robert

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

McMillan, Terry

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dane, Frank

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

48.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.