Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nash, Ogden

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Barrymore, John

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Ward, William A.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Robert Heinlein

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent