Motivational Quotes

Life

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Herold, Don

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.