Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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

William Goldman

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Foreman, George

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

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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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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 drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.