Top 100 In This Life Quotes
#1. If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
Michael Morpurgo
#2. Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
Dalai Lama
#3. Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.
Zadie Smith
#4. Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.
Lauren London
#5. I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
Heinrich Heine
#6. I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities,
Neil L. Andersen
#7. Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.
Omar Suleiman
#8. Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is man's constitution in this life that he never succeeds in truly enjoying himself without the help of other people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#9. What you are passionate about was created in you to make a splash in this life that no one else can make. Make it. Make it now.
Diane Moody
#10. things in this life can be separated into two categories: Things that are valuable and things that matter.
Jim Stovall
#11. I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.
Jill Scott
#12. Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.
Jami Attenberg
#13. Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born
a hundred million years
and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.
Mark Twain
#14. Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.
Russell M. Nelson
#15. I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.
Theodora Goss
#16. In this life, I've found my true treasure
that will never gonna let me go off hand.
Toba Beta
#17. The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
Giacomo Leopardi
#18. There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#19. Some are born rich
While others poor;
Some are born free
While others captives;
Some are born blessed
While others deprived;
Some are born strong
While others weak;
And some are born great
While others slaves.
It is only in this life
blessings are unequal.
Emmanuel Aghado
#21. No, but I have passed the point in life where I expect to be satisfied," Augustus said. "At least I don't expect to be satisfied with much. When it comes right down to it, Woodrow, I guess my own cooking beats anything I've come across in this life.
Larry McMurtry
#23. In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.
Karleen Koen
#24. Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else.
Tana French
#25. I told you it's pointless talking about ifs and if nots. But...I do think it's nice if there could come a time where we could have fun talking about if and if nots, no matter how pointless it is...You know, I feel really happy right now. I'm so glad I was able to meet you in this life. Thank you.
Inio Asano
#26. If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.
Chris Hardwick
#27. Before I left, he said, 'Nothing in this life remains unchanged, o meu menino. Not even mountains.
Oksana Marafioti
#28. There are no U-Turns or Exit Ramps in this life, move forward and don't look back.
John S. Epstein
#29. It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
Elizabeth Aston
#30. Perps didn't always get their just deserts in this life. That was one of the reasons she kept believing in God, the hope that he would kick ass in the afterlife.
Tami Hoag
#31. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
Matthew Thomas
#32. A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life.
Peter Kreeft
#33. The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#34. It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight ... Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.
Lena Dunham
#35. For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.
Seneca.
#36. In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.
Rumi
#37. Your soulmate will always find you, be it in this life or the next
Faye Hall
#38. There are people in this life for whom even the best of things don't work out. They could wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich but badly in debt; be tall but lousy at basketball.
Martin Page
#39. Our greatest pain in this life often comes from those who should love us the most.
Jeff Wheeler
#40. I'm not supposed to live without you. And you're not supposed to live without me. We're in this life together. Without each other, we're not really living.
Rebecca Donovan
#42. My dad's primary emotion is regret. It's like he made some giant mistake in his past, like he took a wrong turn, and instead of ending up wherever he was supposed to be, he ended up in this life [...] instead.
Nicola Yoon
#43. If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.
Jeff Buckley
#45. All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.
George Whitefield
#46. Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
Barbara Johnson
#47. My dear friend Queen Victoria, who has absolute trust in the Divine Justice and goodness, used to often say to me: "What we do not understand now, we shall understand some day- in this life or the next" Empress Eugenie
Theo Aronson
#48. Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.
Thomas Keating
#49. By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
John Milton
#50. You're the only you you get in this life! Show a little appreciation!
Dennis Vickers
#51. The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Richard Steele
#52. God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.
David Platt
#53. The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Fanny Fern
#54. There are no guarantees in this life, only strong possibilities. That's enough for me.
Morgan Rhodes
#55. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
Khalil Gibran
#56. Whoever was stupid was beneath worry or thought; you did not have to figure them out. This eliminated hundreds of people. In this life you had time only for a certain amount of thinking, and there was no need to waste any of it on people who were not threatening.
Joyce Carol Oates
#57. "Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "
Charles Dickens
#58. No one escapes being hurt in this life, because unfortunately, we live in a fallen world. But please believe me when I say there's a great gift in pain.
Julie Lessman
#59. All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.
Frederick Lenz
#60. I have come to understand that there are things in this world, in this life, that don't fit that model. There are things that happen, things that are absolutely real that you can't put in a test tube, or see, or feel with your hands. But you know they are real and they are true
Robert D. Lesslie
#61. As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
Gautama Buddha
#62. When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
John Bolton
#63. If anything in this life is certain ... if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
Mario Puzo
#64. We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
James Freeman Clarke
#65. What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.
Brian Dennehy
#66. A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
Islom Karimov
#67. You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#68. Some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been set in front of you in this life, and try to act on that as bravely and honestly as you could, no matter what kind of rules you'd previously been living by.
Roland Merullo
#69. It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace
not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.
Thomas A Kempis
#70. I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.
Anthony Burgess
#71. I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that's not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.
Jon Foreman
#73. Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.
Anne Graham Lotz
#74. But in this life, he is dog. His life is ocean, stick, ball, sand, grass, ride in the truck, sleep by the bed, look deep into the eyes of humans, lure them outdoors, greet them with a burst of joy when they come home, love them. Fill this brief life with more. And more.
Jacqueline Sheehan
#75. There is no greater burden or torture in this life than for a mother to live without one of her children
Unknown
#76. We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.
Dawn Fraser
#77. Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.'
That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.
Alexander McCall Smith
#78. Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.
Joel T. McGrath
#79. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
#80. Here is the judgment toward which every person outside [of] Christ is headed. The date has already been set by God. All men of all races and nationalities, both past and present, will be there. You may make and break appointments in this life - but this is one appointment you will keep.
Billy Graham
#81. You're going to fall down in this life - everybody dies. But you be the kind of person who doesn't stay down for long. Get back on your feet and keep going no matter what.
Joan Bauer
#82. The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God.
Chris Heimerdinger
#83. No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
C.J. Mahaney
#84. The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
Steven Seagal
#85. Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.
Jane Bowles
#86. [ ... ]No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is always something left unsaid. I look forward to the life to come as the unending last chapter of all the good books I have ever read.
Kathryn Lindskoog
#87. With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.
Larry Watson
#88. We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.
Jessica Zafra
#89. Yes
It could happen any time, tornado,
earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.
Or sunshine, love, salvation.
It could, you know. That's why we wake
and look out - no guarantees
in this life.
But some bonuses, like morning,
like right now, like noon,
like evening.
William Stafford
#90. In this life, there is not the need for perfection, nor is there sufficient time to achieve it.
Benedict Kruse
#91. When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Our whole business therefore in this life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
Augustine Of Hippo
#93. O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment
St. Catherine Of Siena
#94. There is no stopping place in this life
nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.
Meister Eckhart
#95. There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.
Josh Lanyon
#96. We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!
Mark Leyner
#97. Judgment doesn't always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.
Heather Day Gilbert
#98. Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have ... All you need to have is faith in God, and undying passion for what you do, what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful at whatever you put your mind to.
Stephen Curry
#99. On suicide:
Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.
John Speed
#100. Son, in this life, you don't ever walk by a red dress.
Joe Posnanski
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