Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dawson, Roger

Best Quotes about Life

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Camus, Albert

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William