Motivational Quotes

Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Lin-Chi

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Nash, Ogden

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Barrymore, John

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

Coallier, Steven

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Santayana, George

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Oprah Winfrey

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Dawson, Roger

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Broun, Heywood

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Burns, George