Motivational Quotes

Life

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Prochnow, Herbert

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Herzen, Alexander

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

James, William

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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