Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

James, William

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Dickens, Charles

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Mountain, Marian

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Waitley, Denis

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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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