Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Markham, Edwin

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

Havel, Vaclav

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

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

James, William

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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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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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 flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

20.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

25.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Temple, Sir William

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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