Motivational Quotes

Life

I think we're here for each other.

- Burnett, Carol

Best Quotes about Life

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

James, William

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Shields, Carol

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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