Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Butler, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Woody Allen

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

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Landers, Ann

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Gellert

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Butler, Philip

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

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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 only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.