Motivational Quotes

Life

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

- McMillan, Terry

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Wright, Steven

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

Lin-Chi

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ben Stein

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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 art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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 something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen