Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

11.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Moses, Grandma

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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To a wise man every day is a new life.