Motivational Quotes

Life

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Temple, Sir William

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Michelangelo

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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