Motivational Quotes

Life

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Life

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

Butler, Philip

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

11.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

John Lennon

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

Welsh, John

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane