Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Allen, Fred A.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

11.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

14.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

15.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

24.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

28.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Wickett, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

43.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

44.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

45.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Platen

48.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.