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

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Lebowitz, Fran

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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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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

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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