Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Havel, Vaclav

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Conrad, Joseph

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is supposed to get tough.