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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Isaac Asimov

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Augustine, St.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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