Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Tomlin, Lily

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.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herold, Don

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Kempton, Murray

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Santayana, George

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

Heath, David M.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.