Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Boese, Paul

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Dryden, John

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hanks, Tom

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Pliny The Elder

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ovid

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Ciardi, John

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mountain, Marian

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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