Top 39 Life Gives And Takes Quotes
#2. That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.
Jose Saramago
#3. God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
John Piper
#4. Ever minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs -Cassia, 'Matched
Ally Condie
#5. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. That
Sabahattin Ali
#6. Love knows no difference between life and death
The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#7. Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.
Patricia Briggs
#9. The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
Jean-Luc Godard
#10. The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.
Larry Page
#11. Time takes life away
and gives us memory, gold with flame,
black with embers.
Adam Zagajewski
#12. Life gives us everything. Then it takes it away. Youth, love, happiness, friends. Darkness gets it all in the end.
Ray Bradbury
#13. Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.
Madelaine Standing
#14. People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
Helena Bonham Carter
#15. God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
Johnny Cash
#16. 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'
Jerome Charyn
#17. People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.
James Baldwin
#18. A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
Richard Hell
#19. A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.
Roger Ebert
#20. Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
Wendell Berry
#21. My love for you it sings,
It cries
My love for you it dreams,
It wake's
My love for you it gives,
It takes
My love for you it lives,
But never dies.
Dave Guerrero
#22. When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
Suzanne Curchod
#23. I thought, Love gives light to darken life.
But now i realized ...
Love gives a light to darken life and later it takes the light and make it as a darkest life.
Saravanan
#24. Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
Ally Condie
#25. Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.
Shunryu Suzuki
#27. Life,' thought Septimus, ... 'you could never trust the bastard. What it gives with one hand, it takes away with the other.
M.L. Stedman
#28. But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life. I
James Baldwin
#29. Life goes on. people pass along. nothing stays the same. the lord gives and the lord takes away. thats the way he is ... !
Terrence Malick
#30. The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.
Margaret Heckler
#31. The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.
Walter Russell
#32. I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ and you will find true life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#33. In life at least once a person comes, changes you for rest of your whole life, just like a potter who takes clay, gives a proper shape and put into fire. After that, it's not possible to come in natural form ... LOVE IS JUST LIKE THAT.
Anuj Tiwari
#34. That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.
Hermann Hesse
#35. May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#36. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
Homer
#37. Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.
Howard Barker
#39. I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
Paulo Coelho
