Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a state of mind.

- Warden, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Butler, Samuel

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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.

10.

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 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 life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

18.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

29.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Linkletter, Art

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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 the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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

45.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare