Motivational Quotes

Life

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

- Jonathan Haidt

Best Quotes about Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Hanks, Tom

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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 only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

James, William

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Camus, Albert

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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