Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Camus, Albert

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

Dane, Frank

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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.

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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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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

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Temple, Sir William

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Wright, Steven

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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 has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ben Stein

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.