Top 100 Define Life Quotes
#1. One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.
Robert M. Pirsig
#2. Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life.
Terry Goodkind
#3. The heart is not only the location of the 4th chakra, located at the centre of your chakra system, but also the centre of your conscious universe and is able to create and define life in its true essence.
Steven Redhead
#4. As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.
Terry Goodkind
#5. I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.
Craig Venter
#6. The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.
How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships.
Rick Warren
#7. All life has in it the dimension of the Unknown; it is a thing forever unfolding. It seems important to consider the possibility that science may have defined life too small. If we define life too small, we will define ourselves too small as well.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#8. What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.
Christian De Duve
#9. If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
Claude Bernard
#10. Decision, Decision, Decision!
Choices, Choices, Choice.!
Decision and choices define life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. We live by what we get; we define life by what we give.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
Alyson Noel
#14. We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.
Michael A. Stackpole
#15. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you.
R.J. Palacio
#16. I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a splurge.'
It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just one question: Define splurge.
Barbara Kingsolver
#17. I need men to define me: to give me an idea of what I am. If I didn't have boyfriends I don't think I would exist. I would fly apart in all directions. So I must live my life in perpetual pain, if I want to live at all.
Fay Weldon
#18. If you are surprised by the things I say and do, then you really haven't paid attention to who I am.
Tanya Masse
#19. Your life is define by you.
Pay no attention to what others says.
Pay attention to yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.
Lyssa Danehy DeHart
#21. Define your purpose in life.
Define your wishes.
Define your future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, 'No matter what life throws at me, I'm going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.' And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script.
Nikki Rosen
#23. People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
Guillermo Del Toro
#24. Define the life you want.
Never allow yourself to be bullied.
No one knows your destiny.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.
S.R. Grey
#26. Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.
Molly Parker
#27. Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.
Thomas A Kempis
#28. Words have power, and sometimes, they stay with
you for life. It's up to you to allow those words to define who you become.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#29. Life is life! The real meaning and definition of life is not wealth, though wealth can define and give meaning to life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.
Debasish Mridha
#31. I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
Antony Gormley
#33. Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them
Ann Packer
#34. I don't think it's our pasts that define us, and it's not even our life's final destination. It's everything we do in between, the actual living, that creates who we are.
Jay McLean
#36. Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.
T.D. Jakes
#37. For some life is incredibly easy, and for others, life is incredibly hard. Regardless of what side you fall on, you will certainly face challenges in your life. It's how you face and overcome these challenges that will ultimately define you as a person.
Bryan A. Wood
#38. All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
Neale Donald Walsch
#39. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
Viktor E. Frankl
#40. There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.
Donal Logue
#41. Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.
Phil McGraw
#42. Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
Thomas Sowell
#43. When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
Paul Ryan
#44. It is not those events outside of our control which we should allow to define us. Instead, the definition of who we choose to be is dictated by how we deal with these outside events within ourselves.
Tony C. Skye
#45. No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.
Colin Powell
#46. The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.
Ally Sheedy
#47. It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
Eric Heiden
#48. The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us.
Gary L. Thomas
#49. There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
Ann Richards
#50. I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way
Katrina Kaif
#51. Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
Ace Antonio Hall
#52. Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them.
Todd Henry
#53. I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.
Troy Polamalu
#54. Never say no to coffee
Cesar
#55. The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey
Begins.
Shahid Kapoor
#56. Do you think I'll ever have a real life?"
"Define real."
"You know ... a job, a family, a house, stuff like that."
"Is that what you want?"
"I don't know. I used to think the idea of normal was awful, but maybe that was just because I never thought I could have it.
Dianne Sylvan
#57. It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them something to grasp at in the ambiguous vein of life on Earth.
Rhian J. Martin
#59. Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your AWESOMENESS.
Tanya Masse
#60. How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.
Oskar Kokoschka
#62. The deepness of human love and dignity will define the tolerance of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#63. No matter what you have gone through in your youth,
it is about who you choose to be in life.
You can define your own destiny.
You can be stronger than a very difficult past
and overcome it.
Angelina Jolie
#64. There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
Bill Walton
#65. If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
Bo Bennett
#66. How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality
Robert Adams
#67. A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.
Jill Kargman
#68. It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
Francis Crick
#69. Breathe, rabbit. I'll only hurt you if you do something stupid."
I cleared my throat "Define stupid".
When his lips pulled back, I flinched, only to realize that I'd amused him.
"Have you been locked in a tower your whole life?
Kat Falls
#70. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
Mark Batterson
#71. I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
Terry Gilliam
#72. I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#73. It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life." "Yes." A knot forms in my stomach at the idea that I still don't know how deeply Chris's scars define him.
Lisa Renee Jones
#75. I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#76. Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.
Nick Flynn
#77. Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.
Dana Reeve
#79. Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.
Alyscia Cunningham
#80. A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome woman will always be an awesome woman!
Tanya Masse
#81. In order to create an idea ... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die ... you don't.
Lionel Suggs
#82. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
#83. In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life ... Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
Leo Tolstoy
#84. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.
Moby
#85. If you let a single life event define you then all you need to change things--if you want them to change--is another.
Myra McEntire
#86. Christianity is not a promise to enjoy a life without pain nor to be given a shortcut through it. It is a promise that pain, sorrow, sin - ours and others' - will not swallow us, destroy us, define us, or have the final word. Jesus has won the victory. And in him so have we.
Stasi Eldredge
#87. There's nothing in life you can't accomplish, it's yours to have to be accomplished!
Robbie Thomas
#88. I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.
Laverne Cox
#89. One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
Eugene H. Peterson
#90. People like to define you through what they've seen you do ... There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.
Ben Stiller
#91. A terrible thing happened to you, but you mustn't let it define your life.
Cheryl Strayed
#92. Thoughts not only manifest into reality,
they define it.
Jorge Gw
#93. Love is you. Love is calling you. Life is awaiting you. Go forth and live fully. Be whomever you are. Define you.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#94. Little, things, little things, are much more important than big things. Big things hit you in the face with their bigness and obscure the little, more important things that really define a life and provide it with delicacy. Page 113
Lauren Roedy Vaughn
#95. When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.
Steve Maraboli
#96. The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.
R.L.S.
#97. Do not chase happiness. Instead, define success for yourself; then go out and live it. Be unapologetic in your commitment and honorable in your behavior. When you live in this manner, happiness chases you.
Steve Maraboli
#98. I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.
Marlon Brando
#99. You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.
Wole Soyinka
#100. Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.
Steve Maraboli
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