Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Dickens, Charles

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ciardi, John

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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.

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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 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

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando