Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Southey, Robert

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

16.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Field, Joanna

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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 never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise