Motivational Quotes

Life

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Life

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

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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 without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Stoppard, Tom

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 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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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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