Motivational Quotes

Life

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

- Smith, Lillian

Best Quotes about Life

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

William Shakespeare

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Blake, William

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Presser, Ross

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister