Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Platen

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Linkletter, Art

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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 has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert