Top 100 How Life Quotes
#1. I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives. No, I don't think your life went wrong.
Bernhard Schlink
#2. That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope.
Kathryn Le Veque
#3. You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.
Michael Isikoff
#4. You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals should be allowed to be parents (considering that parenting is a full time job for at least 16 years) only when they completely understand how life/mind works and have implemented it in their lives.
Maddy Malhotra
#5. You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
Paul Cezanne
#6. And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye.
Lauren Myracle
#7. The wind blows back my hair and I don't know if I've ever felt so alive and electric before. Maybe this is how life is the moment before you die, everything exploding around you to make saying goodbye that much more bittersweet.
Karina Halle
#8. A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#9. The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.
George Smoot
#10. Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.
Giuliana Rancic
#11. Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
#12. Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:
James Hollis
#14. There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion
#15. A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'
Julia Glass
#16. Not too many people know how life could be best used, it is a millennial dilemma, that has troubled souls of men for many, many generations.
Sunday Adelaja
#17. My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
Susan Hayward
#18. We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.
Martin Rees
#19. The concept of a Miracle, that is, an event that takes place somehow beyond the scope of functional Reality, is absurd. . . There cannot be a true miracle. There can only be events that appear miraculous when you don't really understand How Life Works.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#20. It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
Lauren Oliver
#21. Emma showed me how life can heal the cracks in our armor with people put in our path.
Shelly Crane
#22. I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
Sean Paul
#23. It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.
Marcus Samuelsson
#24. Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?
Gayle Forman
#25. This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.
Miranda July
#26. You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That's just how life is.
Pamela Druckerman
#27. Funny how life had its little ways of surprising you. Little quirks of fate.
Lev Grossman
#28. It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
Gayle Forman
#29. One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems.
Michael Shannon
#30. I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago.
("Wants")
Grace Paley
#31. Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?
Anita Desai
#32. As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Yo-Yo Ma
#33. 'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.
Eric Balfour
#34. He thought about how life never turns out like you think and hope it will.
Maeve Binchy
#35. I think it's funny how life can lead you down certain paths which you wouldn't have taken otherwise.
Giovanna Fletcher
#36. People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
Ringo Starr
#37. Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#38. I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.
Vivica A. Fox
#39. That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous, incomprehensible third party that has arisen between them. Love becomes an entity unto itself; the thing that determines how life is to be lived.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#40. How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart ... how it lifts us up and brings us down ... the wonder of life.
Marwa Ayad
#41. The historical trajectory of violence affects not only how life is lived but how it is understood.
Steven Pinker
#42. I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
Natasha Lyonne
#43. Perhaps our vision of how life should be is actually no fun at all, and neglects to include the exciting people we have yet to meet, who make the stupid ways life seems to happen, happy after all.
Sheila Heti
#44. That was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more.
Beth Revis
#45. life is like a pencil,whenever it breaks you sharpen it again,that's how life is.
Elizabeth Buah
#46. The thing of it is, we don't have to be perfect or be the best. We just need to do the best with what God gives us and how life treats us.
J.W. Lord
#47. You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.
Pink
#48. A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.
Noah Hawley
#49. But no matter how life looks at the moment, if we trust that it looks this way for a reason that will help us and others in the future, we can deal with this moment with a much stronger sense of purpose and acceptance.
Tom Walsh
#50. Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works.
Anonymous
#51. One of the greatest disconnects for this generation is how life and work fit together. There is a need to talk about purpose in life, vocation, and calling. We need to provide a stronger theology of work to help them make integrated connections to their daily lives.
David Kinnaman
#52. Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.
Samantha Sotto
#53. I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around.
Ann Coulter
#54. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
Sharon Salzberg
#55. Nothing good seems easy. That is how life shapes our perception.
Aishah Madadiy
#57. But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.
John Berendt
#58. When I look back on my life's greatest traumas ... I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.
Anna Maxted
#59. But that is not how life teaches you, and I would say that life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up. There's something I want you to learn.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#60. I cannot help to see how life is a play of opposites. For all you get, you miss out on something, to go means not to come, to buy means to sell, to choose one, means to not choose another. You should enjoy your decision for the adventure that it is. It is all an adventure.
Evan Sutter
#61. I question how life is treating me, I should be asking how I am treating life.
Jonathan Harnisch
#62. A bitter sweet tale of how life cannot be planned and love comes when we don't expect it in all shapes and forms.
Annette J. Dunlea
#63. How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.
Emily Perkins
#64. Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
Junot Diaz
#66. This story is about stink, after all, a story about rot, about how life grows out of the most fetid-smelling places. I leaned into the wall of the coiled cabin, snail, the body curled in upon itself, spine coiled, a snake lying in wait.
Larissa Lai
#67. He was trying to accept that there were certain things that would never conform to his idea of how life should be, no matter how intensely he hoped or pretended they might.
Hanya Yanagihara
#68. So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
Tracy K. Smith
#69. Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
#70. I thought of how life had been before I realized I was a frog in a pot
Stephen King
#71. Young, middle-aged, elderly, old, dead: this was how life conjugated. (No, life was a noun, so this is how life declined. Yes, that was better in any case, life declined.
Julian Barnes
#72. Best way to learn how life works is to have the guts to truly go out and live it!
Robin Sharma
#73. It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.
R. F. Delderfield
#74. Isn't it strange how life is always taking you to places and to people you're supposed to see and meet?" "You
Mark T. Sullivan
#75. A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.
Karl Hess
#76. I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
Christophe Honore
#77. Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.
Rius
#78. Bad things happen to good people and Good things happen to bad people..that's just how life is. Yet ... A Great person is the one that will overcome it all!
Timothy Pina
#79. The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.
Tony Robbins
#80. Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.
Melody Beattie
#81. My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
Frank Ocean
#82. That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.
M.L. Stedman
#83. It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.
Mary Balogh
#84. It's so weird how life is so full of moving around
people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which is going to settle your soul. All you can do is look. And hope. And believe.
Natalie Lloyd
#85. I try to make everything creative because it's stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad and how creating is important because it lets a little light in.
Tavi Gevinson
#86. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad
Fred Gipson
#88. It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments.
Lights
#89. How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
Stephen King
#90. I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
J.K. Rowling
#91. That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.
Jose Saramago
#92. That's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
Jose Saramago
#93. While reading Kasparov's book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on "popular highlights" to see what passages other readers had found interesting - and wound up becoming fascinated by a section on chess strategy I'd only lightly skimmed myself.
Clive Thompson
#94. I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
Buzz Osborne
#95. My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
Chris Ware
#96. But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.
Janette Rallison
#97. Having your cake and eating it too is how Life was meant to be. Everything is possible. And the things we want the most are not only possible, they're highly probable.
Debbianne DeRose
#98. I sit on the bed and think how life is never safe and they should tell you that right off the bat. Things happen out of order and just plain wrong, and there is not one thing you can do about it. The message of every morning is? ??????????
Elizabeth Berg
#99. May be that is how life is. Clouds, whether bright or dark, they just keep passing. The duration they stay with us depends on whether the circumstance around us is breezy, windy or stormy.
Abhishek Krishnan
#100. Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant; it's always evolving and that's how life happens for me. Through my adversities I can reach new heights.
Chimnese Davids
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