Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Butler, Philip

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Prochnow, Herbert

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Giles, Henry

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Isaac Asimov

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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 is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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