Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Lehrer, Tom

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel