Motivational Quotes

Life

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

- Dunnington, Lewis L

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Linkletter, Art

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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 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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Coriolanus III

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Herold, Don