Metaphors Of Life Quotes

• Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Music, Beautiful, Life Is Like

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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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• 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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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Graduation, Wise

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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  The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  James Huneker

  Summer, Food, July

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Short Life

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• Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Running, Fitness

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Art, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humor

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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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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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  Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from May 08, 2014

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• Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

  Luigi Pirandello

  Sharks, Life Sucks, Life Is Like

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Success, Morning

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• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

  Life, Bad Ass, Reality

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177

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• I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

  Jim Carrey

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Life, Spiritual, Women

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

  Ogden Nash

  Life, Cute, Men

  1942 Good Intentions,'You and Me and P. B. Shelley'.

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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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