Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Field, Joanna

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

48.

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

Landers, Ann

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.