Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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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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

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

Lennon, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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