Life Is Like Quotes - Page 2

• Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Perfect, Moments, Roller Coaster

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• Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motivational, Firsts, First Time

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Success, Music

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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• Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

  Arthur Ashe

  Winning, Games, Tennis

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• Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

  Merle Shain

  Rivers, Laughing, Balance

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• Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  James Patterson

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Jobs, Order

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• Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

  Taylor Swift

  Time, Steps, Walking

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

  John Updike

  Life, Yummy, Long

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• Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Life And Love, Ideas, Suspense Novels

  Sidney Sheldon (2005). “The other side of me”

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• life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

  Terry McMillan

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Together, Pieces

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• You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

  Pharrell Williams

  Life Is, Carousels, Up And Down

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• Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Roots, Tree, Healthy

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• Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

  Anne Lamott

  Song, Drama, Across The Universe

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.181, Anchor

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• Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Time, Funny Life, Adversity

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• Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Balance, Bicycle

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• Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

  Jess Lair

  Media, Snow, Steps

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• Life is like any other contact sport; you’re gonna get your knocks. But it’s not the knocks that count, it’s how you handle them. If you handle them with anger, distrust, jealousy, hate, this in return is what you’re going to get. But if you handle these knocks with love and understanding, they don’t mean much. They just dissipate.

  Sydney Banks

  Sports, Hate, Mean

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• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

  Claude Pepper

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Life is like a sandwich!
  Birth as one slice,
  and death as the other.
  What you put in-between
  the slices is up to you.
  Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

  Alan Rufus

  Life, Up To You, Sandwiches

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

  Sharon Creech

  Spaghetti, Meatballs, Bowls

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• Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Wise, Lying

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