Motivational Quotes

Life

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Powell, Robert

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Brodsky, Joseph

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Presser, Ross

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner