Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

- Thornton Wilder

Best Quotes about Life

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Truman Capote

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Aristotle

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

Carson, Rachel

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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 comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Wilde, Oscar