Motivational Quotes

Life

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

- Hayward, Jeremy W.

Best Quotes about Life

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Santayana, George

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ciardi, John

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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

Woody Allen

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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]

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