Motivational Quotes

Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Camus, Albert

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

24.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Herold, Don

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

John Lennon

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen