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

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

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

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.