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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Herold, Don

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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Making a life comes before making a living.