Motivational Quotes

Life

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Erhard, Werner

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Foreman, George

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

Walpole, Horace

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Camus, Albert

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Linkletter, Art

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.