Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Kempis, Thomas

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Horton, Doug

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

Gurney, Robert

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Dickens, Charles

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Kempton, Murray

27.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

30.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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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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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

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

44.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl