Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Life

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

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

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Baluch, Joy

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Feidelson, Charles

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Samuel Butler

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bacon, Francis

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