Motivational Quotes

Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Heath, David M.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Wright, Steven

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

10.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

12.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

16.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

17.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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

20.

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

23.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

29.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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

31.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

32.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

33.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

45.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose