Motivational Quotes

Life

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

- Brendan Gill

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Alacia Bessette

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 can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Aristotle

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

29.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Feidelson, Charles

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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