Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Life

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

William Shakespeare

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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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 aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.