Motivational Quotes

Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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

Wright, Steven

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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 is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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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 two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.