Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Life

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

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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.

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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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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

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Landers, Ann

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.