Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Russell, Bertrand

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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 a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Rollo

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

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.