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

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Horace

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

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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 recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Michelangelo

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Gurney, Robert

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

44.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Blake, William

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

William Goldman