Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

William Goldman

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Camus, Albert

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Hume, David

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Pliny The Elder

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

McMillan, Terry

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Tomlin, Lily

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles