Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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

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

Coallier, Steven

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Baluch, Joy

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]