Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ovid

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Lennon, John

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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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.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine