Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

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

Erickson, Lou

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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 average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Ciardi, John

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

William Goldman

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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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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.