Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

- Dick Werthimer

Best Quotes about Life

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Huxley, Aldous

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Kant, Immanuel

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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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 is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Butler, Samuel

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.