Motivational Quotes

Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

- Child, Julia

Best Quotes about Life

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

10.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

James, William

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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

27.

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

Hanks, Tom

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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 -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas