Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Larkin, Philip

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

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

Ward, William A.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Byron, Lord

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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