Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

Alacia Bessette

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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