Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Douglas, Michael

10.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

11.

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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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.

18.

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

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

22.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

25.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

28.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

32.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Santaguida, Paul

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

37.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nash, Ogden

40.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

42.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

43.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

45.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda