Motivational Quotes

Life

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

- Sizoo, Joseph R.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Menander of Athens

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

18.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Herold, Don

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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.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

35.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst