Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Best Quotes about Life

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

Canetti, Elias

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Einstein, Albert

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Herold, Don

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

Coriolanus III

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Santayana, George

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

26.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

28.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

31.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Robert Heinlein

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Michelangelo

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Hume, David

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

45.

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

46.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

48.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard