Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

- Ellen DeGeneres

Best Quotes about Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

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

Larkin, Philip

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.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Harington, Donald

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

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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 web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Presser, Ross

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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 fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Linkletter, Art

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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 reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Hanks, Tom

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril