Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

- Presser, Ross

Best Quotes about Life

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Camus, Albert

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

Robert Heinlein

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph