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

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

Herold, Don

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Dane, Frank

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Mark Hodder

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lennon, John

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Powell, Robert

28.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Austen, Jane

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John