Motivational Quotes

Life

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

- Henry, O.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Markiewicz, William

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Santaguida, Paul

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

William Shakespeare

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lennon, John

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.