Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Butler, Philip

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Herold, Don

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Coriolanus III

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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 an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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 was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Lawrence, D. H.