Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

10.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

11.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

12.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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 short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Santayana, George

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

34.

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

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Wickett, Michael

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner