Motivational Quotes

Life

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Cabell, James Branch

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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

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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 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