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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

William Shakespeare

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred