Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Camus, Albert

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

McMillan, Terry

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Larkin, Philip

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Carson, Johnny

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Lennon, John

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall