Motivational Quotes

Life

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

10.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

11.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

12.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

13.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

14.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

16.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

17.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

18.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

20.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

22.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

24.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

26.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

27.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

28.

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

Facult, F. Paul

29.

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

Dickens, Charles

30.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

31.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

33.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

34.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

38.

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

39.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

40.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

41.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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

43.

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

44.

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

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.