Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 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