Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Life

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

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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.

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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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 energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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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

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Shields, Carol

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf