Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Camus, Albert

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.