Motivational Quotes

Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Samuel Butler

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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 supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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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

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Byron, Lord

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Simon, Neil

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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