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

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward