Top 100 Every Life Quotes
#1. We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.
Elizabeth Dole
#2. I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.
Lee Smith
#3. Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.
George Orwell
#4. Maybe not this year or the next but one day they'd end up married. In this lifetime and every one after it. Just knowing that I'd get to watch them find each other and fall in love in every life made me smile.
Abbi Glines
#5. I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#6. To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#8. Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#9. Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
Gertrude Atherton
#10. Imagination and the journey-quest is at the heart of every life well-lived
Azar Nafisi
#11. There are chapters in every life which are seldom read, and certainly not aloud.
Carol Shields
#12. Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler
#14. Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
Ann Brashares
#16. What we consider real is also imagined; every life lived is also an inner life, a life created.
Margaret Atwood
#17. In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
Bobby McFerrin
#18. Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.
Marvin J. Ashton
#19. In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#20. Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
Joe Queenan
#21. The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
Barbara Kingsolver
#22. Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#23. Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
Gabrielle Roy
#24. The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.
Viktor Schauberger
#25. In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.
Lily Koppel
#26. Rather than following a [genealogical] 'line', I find myself drawn to all the people I encounter, including those who, only by the most obtuse reckoning, can be thought of as relatives. Every life deserves telling; none is without drama and change.
Alison Light
#27. Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.
Mary Stewart
#28. I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#29. Every life has the potential to be lived deeply. - William Powers
Kory Kogon
#30. The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#31. Every life leaves a trace, every ship a wake, and even though it was often just a glimmer of phosphorescence in the dark,
Terry Hayes
#32. Every life has peaks and shadows and times when it seems that the birds don't sing and bells don't ring. Yet in spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser, and happier as a result.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#33. It is Jill's theory that in every life there is one dog.Other dogs may come and go, but there is one grande affaire. I feel that is probably right and yet it worries me, for it might mean that I am a fickle person. For I seem able to love deeply just the dog I am looking at.
Gladys Taber
#34. Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
Benjamin Franklin
#35. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."
Bill Gates
#36. I believe that every life , irrespective of its events and setting, holds
something of unique value, which it should be possible to communicate, if
only one can first see one's experiences honestly and then set them down
without too much dressing-up
Iris Origo
#37. Every life has one true love snapshot.
Mitch Albom
#38. Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.
Demi Lovato
#39. Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
Julia Ward Howe
#40. Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.
Caroline Myss
#41. Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy
Don't worry, be happy now
Bobby McFerrin
#42. Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being.
Toba Beta
#43. Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott
#44. Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
Rick Bragg
#45. Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children's children.
Bill Jensen
#46. Every life is a unique story written by an unique person who is living it. So write it fearlessly, write it better.
Debasish Mridha
#47. There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.
LeAnn Rimes
#49. I'll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I
will not be bound by anything but my love for you.
Lauren Kate
#50. But don't I deserve to be someone's first choice for a change?' All his life, in every life he'd lived, Orion had been the runner-up to someone else.
Josephine Angelini
#51. In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.
Dean Koontz
#52. Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.
Julian Baggini
#53. Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.
Isabel Allende
#54. It is impossible, he had found, if you rule, to do only good, for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he could not care about every life, every dream, every population of every world.
Neil Gaiman
#55. The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be.
John Shelby Spong
#56. Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.
Jo Coudert
#57. Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
Alexander MacLaren
#59. What has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's when everyone becomes a great man, for a moment; and the choices made in those moments, which come all too frequently, then combine to make history.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#60. They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through the other side, the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.
Anthony Doerr
#61. I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.
Kirsten Miller
#62. Failure comes into every life...Just make sure it doesn't stay.
Bille Baty
#63. Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Mark Haddon
#65. As it is with every Life experience,
from the cradle to the grave,
Curiosity, is the culprit,
and always leads the way.
D. O'Brien
#66. In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.
Alice Walker
#67. Every life has a purpose. The longest life has many stories to tell of the opportunities to witness God's hand. The shortest life holds the eternal treasure of impacting lives as a testimony of God's creation because of a precious heartbeat.
Amy E. Tobin
#69. But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.
Liane Moriarty
#70. Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.
Cesar Aira
#71. We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.
Mark Hall
#72. Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure.
Grace King
#73. Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.
Beverly S. Harless
#75. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#76. Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God ... because God is love.
Dolores Hart
#77. Every second is a forever in Wink. Every day is a cool afternoon waiting to happen. And every life is one lived quietly, with your feet up and your sun-dappled lawn before you as you watch the world happily drift by.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#78. In every life," Dolores had said, "I think there's always a moment when you must decide where you belong.
John Irving
#79. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#80. Every life ought to contain both a turn and a return.
E. M. Forster
#81. Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear.
Aleksandra Layland
#82. For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
T. S. Eliot
#83. Every life has a divine purpose and that is to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Every life-altering change stems from a series of small, seemingly meaningless amendments.
Kandi Steiner
#85. Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.
Mohsin Hamid
#86. Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.
Franklin Graham
#87. Every life has a beginning, a middle, and an end; dissect history and you'll see the word that defines it as a tale, a narrative.
Jodi Picoult
#88. If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth? You
Lee Strobel
#89. every life contains the inspiration for a beautiful novel.
Antonio Garrido
#90. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum.
William Boyd
#91. In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.
Charles Dickens
#92. In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.
Julia Quinn
#93. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.
The Doctor
#94. Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#95. There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.
Sarah Dessen
#96. Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.
Ian Somerhalder
#97. In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children. I got to do what I loved. How many people are that lucky?
Joe Paterno
#98. God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.
F.B. Meyer
#99. The life of one we love is never lost. Its influence goes through every life it ever touched.
Katie Ashley
#100. AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor.No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.
Laura Bush
