Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Shields, Carol

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

Augustine, St.

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

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Kempton, Murray

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

17.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

22.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

34.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose