Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Russell, Lady R.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Newman, Peter C.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

28.

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

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack