Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Michelangelo

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Santayana, George

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Pope John XXIII

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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.