Motivational Quotes

Life

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

- Dunnington, Lewis L

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Dimnet, Ernest

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Landers, Ann

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.