Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gusoff, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Nash, Ogden

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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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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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