Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Camus, Albert

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

11.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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 full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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 is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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 is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell