Motivational Quotes

Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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

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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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