Motivational Quotes

Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Lehrer, Tom

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Hanks, Tom

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Ciardi, John

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.