Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

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

Havel, Vaclav

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Wilde, Oscar

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

James, William

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Ovid

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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 is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hanks, Tom