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

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Shields, Carol

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

Forster, Edward M.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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.

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

Samuel Butler

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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.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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

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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'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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin