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 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

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.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Cook, Robert A.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

24.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

30.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Live poor so you can die rich.

41.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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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

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