Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

John Lennon

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Erhard, Werner

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Wright, Steven

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb