Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Life

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Erhard, Werner

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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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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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Boese, Paul

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert