Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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 fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Camus, Albert

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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