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

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Ward, William A.

10.

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

11.

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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

13.

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

McMillan, Terry

14.

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

15.

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

Fran Lebowitz

16.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

21.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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

24.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

25.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

28.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

30.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

34.

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

Coriolanus III

35.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

36.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Welsh, John

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

Santayana, George

43.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

44.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

45.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

46.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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