Motivational Quotes

Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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.

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

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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 a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Dane, Frank

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody