Top 100 Life Expression Quotes
#1. Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#2. Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
Asger Jorn
#3. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Stephanie Perkins
#4. You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, perfect Life, here and now.
Richard Bach
#5. We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life
Deepak Chopra
#6. It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.
Roger Ebert
#7. I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.
Sylvia Plath
#8. Knowing depths of love of God makes life becomes an expression of that love
Sunday Adelaja
#9. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Carl Jung
#10. I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
Winston Churchill
#11. My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
Abbas Kiarostami
#12. Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.
Ellen Key
#13. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.
Alexandra Katehakis
#14. Love is heavenly.
Expression of love gives us the sweetest joy and deepest fulfillment.
Debasish Mridha
#15. You are the forward edge of life's advancement; in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance.
Bryant McGill
#16. I don't play accurately
any one can play accurately
but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
Oscar Wilde
#17. Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.
Mark Victor Hansen
#18. New media technologies can open up new opportunities for self-expression. But yoking one's identity too closely to certain characteristics of these technologies - and lacking the time, opportunity, or inclination to explore life and lives offline - may result in an impoverished sense of self.
Gardner Howard
#19. Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.
Arthur Rubinstein
#20. Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression.
Debasish Mridha
#21. The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man since It is the quintessence of all the mysteries of His Life.
Peter Julian Eymard
#22. And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
Ani DiFranco
#23. I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#24. Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
John Steinbeck
#25. Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.
Rudolf Rocker
#26. I truly, genuinely like clothes. Making them is an art form, and wearing them is a form of self-expression. I find it very emotional because I can remember moments in my life - my mood, how I felt - through these clothes.
Diane Kruger
#27. One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#28. We love things because they reflect our imaginative love in their expression.
Debasish Mridha
#29. I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.
Ryoko Tani
#30. The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#31. The villagers waited silently. There is something about people with no hope for a better future in life. You can identify them from their expression. Most of all, it is in their eyes, which
Chetan Bhagat
#32. My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment.
Rickson Gracie
#33. What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you will arrive at clarity of mind and a more authentic expression of yourself.
Linda Cull
#34. Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.
RuPaul
#35. You brought me here to admire the view?" I whisper. He nods, his expression serious.
"It's staggering, Christian. Thank you," I murmur, letting my eyes feast on it once more. He releases my hand.
"How would you like to look at it for the rest of your life?" he breathes.
E.L. James
#36. Fashion is a lifestyle, it's a choice,it's a freedom of expression.You have to live it, you have to love it. You have to breathe it. Life's all about love and glamour.
Christina Aguilera
#37. The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.
Sigmund Freud
#38. If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
Oscar Wilde
#39. Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
Robert Henri
#40. New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
James Russell Lowell
#41. In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?
Robert Henri
#42. While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.
Lauren Mackler
#43. Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
#44. There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#45. Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.
Louise Hay
#46. What if I have not been writing? Feelings wouldn't have died; expression wouldn't have sharpened. I wouldn't have analyzed many of my deeds and others' deeds to me. Small and irrelevant looking incidents of life wouldn't have appeared priceless.
Shankar Lamichhane
#47. The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.
J.G. Holland
#48. The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.
Marilynne Robinson
#49. Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
Avijeet Das
#50. It's important to understand your ownership pattern because it is an expression of the values that guide your life. The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.
Marie Kondo
#51. What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.
Dermot Davis
#52. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Ansel Adams
#53. The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.
David O. McKay
#54. When we learn to live well in this life with nothing left unsaid or undone we find peace, freedom and full self-expression. With that, we are capable of anything.
Jacqueline Harrison
#55. A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.
Robin S. Sharma
#56. I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.
Dylan McDermott
#57. Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.
Shunryu Suzuki
#58. Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.
Piet Mondrian
#59. The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas.
Augusten Burroughs
#60. The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will work out as we hope, but faith, simply, in life and its extraordinary intelligence that never fails to surprise. While belief holds on tightly, faith lets go.
Roger Housden
#61. Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.
Wim Wenders
#62. Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#63. She stares straight into the camera, eyes narrowed. She wears an expression I've not seen from her before. Disgust? Defiance? She looks nothing like the woman I've known my entire life.
Shannon Duffy
#64. An art dies when it describes itself instead of life - when it turns from the expression of man's feelings in the void, to a mere description of the void.
Jack Kerouac
#65. The Smile for some is an expression of joy, but for others it's a whole world of hope.
Abdel Halim Boudekhana
#66. Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.
Rabindranath Tagore
#67. If you allow your passion and vitality to remain hidden or unexpressed, you won't live into the fullest expression of who you can be.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#68. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
#69. I love you; my heart belongs to you; I am you; I lost myself in you; you are my expression, my beauty, my life and living. You are my mirror, my sun, and my moon.
Debasish Mridha
#70. The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
John Berger
#71. Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.
Laurence Boldt
#72. During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#73. Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Jonathan Edwards
#74. All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.
Ernest Holmes
#75. Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other ... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.
Mark Nepo
#76. All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
#77. I don't think creativity is mine to maintain. It automatically comes when we declare that "I am an expression of life, and life will express itself through me in the most playful and wonderful of ways, if I let it."
Richard Bach
#78. 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#79. Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
Mary Ritter Beard
#80. There are no wrong people - only the wrong expression and the wrong perception.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot
Sunday Adelaja
#83. We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.
Anthon St. Maarten
#84. Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.
Steve McCurry
#85. Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward Hopper
#86. Action with and for those who suffer is the concrete expression of the compassionate life and the final criterion of being a Christian.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#87. Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
Karl Barth
#88. Sunrise to sunset, that's life, my darling.
I loved the way he said that, my darling. I liked it more because he rarely uses the expression as a term of endearment for Dick, he had terms of his own, this was mine and it made me level in some way.
Gillibran Brown
#89. He turned to me then, his expression serious, the firelight playing over the perfect planes of his features. I've spent my life searching for a way to make things right. You're the first glimmer of hope I've had in a long time.
Leigh Bardugo
#90. If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. Every one has a story someone in the world needs to hear.
Tami Belt
#92. A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
#93. Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
Ai Weiwei
#94. People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
John Darnielle
#95. You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had.
I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson.
"Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
Melissa Bank
#96. Things can't get any worse. It's a stupid expression.
Things can always get worse. And in my experience, they usually do.
Kami Garcia
#97. Life is unpredictable so let's have a joyous and ridiculous moment with a wondrous expression.
Avinash Advani
#98. Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two ... Work is an expression of life.
Orson Welles
#99. Life is a miracle. YOU are a unique expression of this purposeful miracle. Think of how GREAT that makes you. Live big! You are not here to dwell within the basement of your potentiality.
Steve Maraboli
#100. Our happiness should not depend on external things; it is the expression of internal attitudes.
Debasish Mridha
