Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Robbins, Anthony

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Santayana, George

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.