Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

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

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Socrates

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Truman Capote

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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 world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

James, William

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul