Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Life

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Giles, Henry

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Young, J. Z.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Camus, Albert

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

John Lennon

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carson, Rachel

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian