Motivational Quotes

Life

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Mountain, Marian

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Austen, Jane

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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]

Bible

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Canetti, Elias

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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 not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Michelangelo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von