Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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 not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Austen, Jane

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.