Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about 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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

10.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Mountain, Marian

33.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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

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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

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.