Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Michelangelo

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Socrates

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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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 slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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