Motivational Quotes

Life

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Wright, Steven

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cioran, E. M.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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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

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Camus, Albert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Walpole, Horace

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George