Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Life

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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Hume, David

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Truman Capote

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pasternak, Boris

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Santayana, George

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Bacon, Francis

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