Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

10.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

11.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

14.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

18.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

19.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

20.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

21.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

24.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

31.

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

Conrad, Joseph

32.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

33.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

34.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

35.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

36.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

38.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

39.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

40.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

41.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

45.

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

Cioran, E. M.

46.

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

47.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria