Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gellert

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

Alacia Bessette

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Coallier, Steven

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moses, Grandma

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Hayes, Helen

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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