Motivational Quotes

Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Conrad, Joseph

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Butler, Samuel

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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 an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

William Goldman

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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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Mark Hodder

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, 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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Kempis, Thomas

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Lin-Chi

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh