Said Life Quotes

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Love, Inspirational, Life

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Henry A. Kissinger

Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Winston Groom

Life, Motivational, Movie

"Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Lewis Carroll

Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt

William Watson Purkey

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.

William Watson Purkey

Inspirational, Life, Dance

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It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

Jim Jarmusch

Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

"His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

Inspirational, Funny, Success

"Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

Watts Humphrey

Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Samuel Beckett

Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Life, Smile, Graduation

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Love like you'll never be hurt.

William Watson Purkey

Inspirational, Life, Dance

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

Gone, Goes On, Windmills

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel.

Lloyd Alexander

Eye, Luck, Clay

Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.143, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Miranda July

Real, Orange Juice, Frozen

Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.

Patricia Grasso

Beautiful, Misery, Distinction

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Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

Douglas Coupland

Dog, Sadness, Envy

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An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

Annie Dillard

Lying, Men, Soul

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.242, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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