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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Burns, George

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

James, William

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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 a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.