Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Carson, Rachel

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Ovid

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

22.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

28.

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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

31.

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

32.

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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

36.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

40.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Pliny The Elder

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.