Top 62 Life Figured Out Quotes
#1. We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.
Philip Gulley
#2. I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#3. Arch glared at him. I've spent hundreds of years watching you mope around because you thought you lost your soul mates. You wouldn't recognize a soul mate if she walked up to you and hit you in your face. Even after all this time, you still haven't figured it out.
Rose Wynters
#4. I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'
Jenny McCarthy
#5. Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
Michael Burke
#6. Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side.
Andrea L'Artiste
#7. I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out.
But what I didn't know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn't quite know it all so much then.
Cecelia Ahern
#8. Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life?
What do the laws of physics care about life and consciousness that they should
conspire to make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a Grand Designer had it
all figured out.
Paul Davies
#9. As we know all too painfully, life hands you surprises. But you know what I've found out? Not all the surprises life has in store are bad ones. Sometimes you think you have things figured out, and then, zap! Things change.
Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin
#10. I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
#11. We stick together, and it makes me feel a little better knowing that, even at thirty-two, Liza hasn't figured her life out yet.
Miranda Kenneally
#12. I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
#13. Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.
Julianna Baggott
#14. She was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her.
Clarice Lispector
#15. I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.
Grace Gummer
#16. (Answers to life) - You don't have to have it all figured out by a certain age or time in your life. It will come in bits and pieces along the way.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#17. We rally about one side not doing what the other side should be, whereas the other side feels the same way.. When both have not figured out that one has to be different than the other for the other to be attracted.
Apply this in every way along your day.. Either way your right
Jonathan Bailey
#18. The discovery of life on Mars is something that, politically, they haven't figured out yet.
Robert A. Heinlein
#19. I wanna live. I don't wanna die. That's the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade
George Carlin
#20. If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.
Anna Staniszewski
#21. Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.
Zayn Malik
#22. Once I figured out what I was going to do with my life, I was definitely going to get a dog. Maybe I'd get a rescue. I liked the idea of an older dog that was already broken in and just needed a loving home. The irony was, that wasn't too different from how I was feeling about myself.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#23. The story seemed to start such a long time ago. It didn't fit into my brain, even. It started when i figured out how things could get broken ( ... ) It started when knowing was sadder than all of the things themselfs.
Ava Dellaira
#24. Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
Brian Andreas
#25. Don't assume I have everything figured out ... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.
Leslie Mann
#26. Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it!
Laurie Colwin
#27. But earlier this week on a wooded path,
I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir
were the true geniuses,
the ones who had figured out how to fly,
how to be both beautiful and brutal,
and how to mate for life.
Billy Collins
#28. In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn't need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you're uninsured, it can bankrupt you.
Denis McDonough
#29. I don't know what I'm doing here, either. I suspect that the moment I have it figured out, I'll probably die half a second later.
Chuck Wendig
#30. I'd always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises.
Morgan Matson
#31. I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.
Bart Yates
#32. Sometimes life was messy and got in the way. But wasn't that part of the beauty of falling in love and being in a relationship? You figured things out together as you grew, and faced the challenges that life enjoyed the hell out of throwing at you.
J. Sterling
#33. Passion in life ... is life. It's contagious. Get naked and roll around in it.
People who enjoy living have it all figured out.
They are passionate, driven, alive, and they are real.
Lorii Myers
#35. The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
Alyssa Milano
#36. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
Dorothy Allison
#37. My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.
Mitch Pileggi
#38. I'm rich! I don't mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That's rich.
John Waters
#39. I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn't figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren't so different after all.
Dora J. Arod
#40. I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.
Joe Namath
#41. Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.
Sharon Van Etten
#42. I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.
Josh Young
#43. I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#44. Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#45. There was a rumor that Project 9 engineers had figured out a way to replace the random jumble of our nighttime dreaming with organized thinking and real-life problem solving.
Dave Eggers
#46. One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
Michael Shannon
#47. What's your life philosophy, Leo?" "I haven't figured it out yet." Abbey considers this. "'I haven't figured it out yet' is not a bad life philosophy
Paul Acampora
#48. I probably always will be. But I've been mad all my life, and I finally figured out that I couldn't keep carrying that with me. It's too heavy and I'm too tired. Time will take care of it, like it does everything else.
Ayana Mathis
#49. I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading?
Dean Bokhari
#50. Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
Michael Winter
#51. I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
Kevin Spacey
#52. Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
Chip Kidd
#53. Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things weren't working out, you just tried harder.
Kristin Armstrong
#54. I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.
Cliff Curtis
#55. I'm here to tell you that none of us have it all figured out; we are forever works in progress. The moments of brilliance in your life will always be balanced by moments of vulnerability, insecurity, and doubt. The sooner you get around to being okay with that, the happier your life will be.
Alexis Jones
#56. She felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late.
Elizabeth Strout
#57. One of the very first things I figured out about life ... is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
Barbara Kingsolver
#58. many gamers have already figured out how to use the immersive power of play to distract themselves from their hunger: a hunger for more satisfying work, for a stronger sense of community, and for a more engaging and meaningful life.
Jane McGonigal
#59. I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work.
Shea Hembrey
#60. The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
Conor Oberst
#61. I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.
Francis Fukuyama
#62. I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.
Aaron Rodgers
