Motivational Quotes

Life

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 Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Baudrillard, Jean

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

James, William

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Caesar, Sid

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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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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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 action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales