Motivational Quotes

Life

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Life

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Austen, Jane

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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 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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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Tomlin, Lily

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Herold, Don

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Santayana, George

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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.