Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Dante Alighieri

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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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

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Herzen, Alexander

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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 is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich