Motivational Quotes

Life

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Markham, Edwin

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

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Herold, Don

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

William Goldman

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Coriolanus III

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Fuller, Thomas

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