Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Camus, Albert

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mountain, Marian

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Lehrer, Tom

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pope John XXIII

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gellert

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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.