Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Best Quotes about Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Russell, Lady R.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy