Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Oprah Winfrey

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Kempton, Murray

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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 not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Miller, Henry

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

William Shakespeare