Motivational Quotes

Life

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

- Dunnington, Lewis L

Best Quotes about Life

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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