Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Camus, Albert

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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

18.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Camus, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Temple, Sir William

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

48.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

49.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry