Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Woody Allen

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Kant, Immanuel

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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