Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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 is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Coallier, Steven

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Blake, William

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Wright, Steven

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wilde, Oscar