Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Gellert

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Baudrillard, Jean

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.