Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Hayes, Helen

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Welsh, John

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

37.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl