Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dane, Frank

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

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Allen, Fred A.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Pepper, Claude D.