Motivational Quotes

Life

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Gauguin, Paul

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Keller, Helen

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lin-Chi

16.

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

Blake, William

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

22.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

27.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

28.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

29.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

30.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

31.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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

45.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

49.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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