Motivational Quotes

Life

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Southey, Robert

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Powell, Robert

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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 what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Giles, Henry

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Horace

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

Simon, Neil

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William