Motivational Quotes

Life

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

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

Steve Jobs

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Norris, Kathleen

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Kempton, Murray

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Augustine, St.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.