Motivational Quotes

Life

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

- Mountain, Marian

Best Quotes about Life

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Coallier, Steven

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Michelangelo

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French