Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a bowl of pits.

- Rodney Dangerfield

Best Quotes about Life

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Samuel Butler

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

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

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

Michelangelo

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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 longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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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 done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Simon, Neil

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.