Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Feidelson, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Brendan Gill

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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