Motivational Quotes

Life

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Life

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

William Goldman

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Woolf, Virginia

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carson, Rachel

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles