Motivational Quotes

Life

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Russell, Lady R.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Herold, Don

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.