Motivational Quotes

Life

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Life

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Gauguin, Paul

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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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 is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Simon, Neil

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.