Motivational Quotes

Life

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Herold, Don

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Pope John XXIII

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Welsh, John

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Hayes, Helen

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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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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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul