Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Burns, George

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gellert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Larkin, Philip

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

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey