Motivational Quotes

Life

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

11.

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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Horton, Doug

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Conrad, Joseph

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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

Robert Heinlein

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

30.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Coallier, Steven

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

45.

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

Santayana, George

46.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.