Motivational Quotes

Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Life

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

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 a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Mark Hodder

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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.