Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Carson, Johnny

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Dante Alighieri

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aristotle

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Douglas, Michael

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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