Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Burns, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herzen, Alexander

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Wright, Steven

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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