Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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 is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.