Motivational Quotes

Life

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Coallier, Steven

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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 neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Wright, Steven

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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