Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

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

Lennon, John

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.