Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

- Benet, Stephen Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simon, Neil

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Wickett, Michael

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Dawson, Roger

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.