Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Hanks, Tom

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

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

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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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 full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

25.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Ovid

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

32.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

35.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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 life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.