Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

John Lennon

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Wickett, Michael

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian