Motivational Quotes

Life

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Newman, Peter C.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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