Motivational Quotes

Life

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Life

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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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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

12.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

20.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

21.

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

Alacia Bessette

22.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

23.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

24.

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

Camus, Albert

25.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

26.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Kempis, Thomas

28.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

29.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

32.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

33.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

34.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

35.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Woody Allen

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

41.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

42.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

44.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.