Motivational Quotes

Life

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

- Conrad, Peter

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

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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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

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Erhard, Werner

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter