Motivational Quotes

Life

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Larkin, Philip

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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 fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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 is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia