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

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Butler, Samuel

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Michelangelo

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

31.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Samuel Butler

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Menander of Athens

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Leacock, Stephen B.