Motivational Quotes

Life

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Coallier, Steven

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Ward, William A.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

William Shakespeare

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin