Motivational Quotes

Life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Miller, Henry

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel