Motivational Quotes

Life

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

McMillan, Terry

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Shields, Carol

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Byron, Lord

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker