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 hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Michelangelo

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Nash, Ogden

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

29.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

32.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen