Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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

12.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

18.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

27.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

28.

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

Herzen, Alexander

29.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

30.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

31.

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

Powell, Robert

32.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

34.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

35.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

42.

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

Barrymore, John

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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