Motivational Quotes

Life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Hanks, Tom

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

John Lennon

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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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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

41.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.