Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Butler, Samuel

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

May, Rollo

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

11.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

William Shakespeare

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Larkin, Philip

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Newman, Peter C.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Live poor so you can die rich.

48.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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