Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

- Peter De Vries

Best Quotes about Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Woody Allen

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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 old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carson, Rachel

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George