Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Heath, David M.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

John Lennon

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Santayana, George

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Santayana, George

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Aristotle

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth