Motivational Quotes

Life

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Brodsky, Joseph

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar