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

Dimnet, Ernest

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Powell, Robert

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Harington, Donald

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Camus, Albert

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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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 is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don