Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Giles, Henry

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Gurney, Robert

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert