Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Life

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Live poor so you can die rich.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Herzen, Alexander

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Woody Allen

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Shields, Carol

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.