Motivational Quotes

Life

All great art is born of the metropolis.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

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

Coallier, Steven

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dante Alighieri

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Santayana, George

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Linkletter, Art

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

James, William

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Aristotle

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Blake, William

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way