Motivational Quotes

Life

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

- Polgar, Alfred

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fields, W. C.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Miller, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Erhard, Werner

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Lin-Chi

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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