Motivational Quotes

Life

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Stoppard, Tom

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Wise, Alfonso The

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Gellert

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Steve Jobs

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.