Motivational Quotes

Life

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

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

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

William Goldman

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Temple, Sir William

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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.

Whitman, Walt

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John