Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Blackie, Professor

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Erhard, Werner

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

William Goldman

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles