Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Havel, Vaclav

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

19.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

21.

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Santayana, George

25.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

40.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Linkletter, Art

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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