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

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

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

Facult, F. Paul

11.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

12.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

14.

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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

17.

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

Camus, Albert

18.

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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

25.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

27.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

James, William

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Herzen, Alexander

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

36.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

38.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

48.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

49.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Blake, William