Motivational Quotes

Life

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

- Lin-Chi

Best Quotes about Life

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Camus, Albert

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

William Goldman

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Mark Hodder

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

22.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Welsh, John

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

Michelangelo

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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

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Santayana, George

32.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shields, Carol

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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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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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

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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 mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

47.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma