Motivational Quotes

Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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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 just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

21.

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.

22.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

25.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

26.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Michelangelo

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

43.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

John Lennon

46.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

47.

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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan