Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

Southey, Robert

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

Heath, David M.

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Erhard, Werner

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

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

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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 is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Facult, F. Paul

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Wickett, Michael

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