Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Life

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

Horton, Doug

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

10.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

12.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Goldman

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

23.

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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Coallier, Steven

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Wright, Steven

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.