Motivational Quotes

Life

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Life

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Boese, Paul

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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 like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ciardi, John

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru