Motivational Quotes

Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Woody Allen

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.