Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Duncan, Isadora

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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 filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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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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