Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fran Lebowitz

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

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

Kornfield, Jack

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Hume, David

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Condoleeza Rice

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

James, William

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Pope John XXIII

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.