Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Coallier, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Welsh, John

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

17.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

23.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

30.

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

Michelangelo

31.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

32.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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 a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

46.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb