Motivational Quotes

Life

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Life

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

William Shakespeare

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Mark Hodder

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Goldman

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Butler, Samuel

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Carson, Rachel

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Hewitt, George T.