Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about 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

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Isherwood, Christopher

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Camus, Albert

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hume, David

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Camus, Albert

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri