Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Austen, Jane

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Douglas, Michael

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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 has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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