Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Wright, Steven

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

William Shakespeare

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Camus, Albert

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo