Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Life

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Miller, Henry

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

11.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

12.

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

Wright, Steven

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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.

27.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

28.

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

29.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Mark Hodder

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gellert

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hayes, Helen

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin