Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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

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

Ciardi, John

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

13.

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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

19.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Ovid

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Indian

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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 in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

45.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

48.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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