Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Kant, Immanuel

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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.

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

Gellert

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Shields, Carol

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Antrim, Minna

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North