Motivational Quotes

Life

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

- Barbara Hall

Best Quotes about Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Barbara Hall

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Presser, Ross

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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