Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Wright, Steven

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Canetti, Elias

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.