Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Wright, Steven

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Presser, Ross

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Norris, Kathleen

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare