Top 100 Life Has Quotes
#2. As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
Robert Baden-Powell
#5. It's different this time,' they used to like to say. But it's never different. Life has a way of reminding you of that truth every few years. One day everything worked and then suddenly it stopped.
Paul MacDonald
#6. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
Virginia Satir
#7. Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
John Piper
#8. My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence
John Paul Warren
#9. See marriage as a man must, a good, sensible workaday institution; but awfully curbing to one's liberty. Somehow, after you're married forever, life has lost its feeling of adventure. There aren't any romantic possibilities waiting to surprise you around each corner.
Jean Webster
#10. Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.
Irene Cara
#11. The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
Silvia Cartwright
#12. If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
Anton Chekhov
#13. Well, what o you want?" I said. "I am the type of guy who couldn't survive without disfigurement. Life has worked me over. It wasn't just the war, either ... I got a bad wound, you know. But the shots of life ... " I gave myself a bang on the breast. "Right here! You know what I mean, King?
Saul Bellow
#15. My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
Manolo Blahnik
#16. Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
Patricia Neal
#17. Life has two stages. Birth and death. That's it. What you do in between the two? Well, that's up to you, isn't it?
Rachel Van Dyken
#18. It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
Sebastian Bach
#19. Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#20. When you get too excited about the possibilities, you don't stop to consider the consequences. Just when you get too cocky, life has a way of putting you in your place.
Katie Kacvinsky
#22. The simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind, than all the (investigations) disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of moralists.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#23. Each time of life has its own kind of love.
Leo Tolstoy
#24. This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best to move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there's a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day ...
Kristin Hannah
#25. Revenge might be sweet and although friendship might be sweeter, once you find true love you will taste the sweetest thing life has to offer
Morten Hogsberg
#26. Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.
Sidney Hook
#27. A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
Kim Cattrall
#28. Training has always been a hobby, and my whole life has revolved around training. It's something I truly love doing. I wanna do what I wanna do and this is something I wrestled with, because I have to make many sacrifices to do what I wanna do.
Ronnie Coleman
#29. Every life has a divine purpose and that is to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#30. One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.
Deb Caletti
#31. Just when you think you know who you are, life has this way of throwing a curveball and landing you back in the town of confusion; population: a vast majority of the human race.
Connor Franta
#32. Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.
Alanis Morissette
#33. Seek counsel; though we are all skilled and experienced in many ways, no one can experience all that life has to offer in the limited time we are given in this world.
A.J. Darkholme
#34. I feel kind of depressed today ... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by?
Worse than that ... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!
Charles M. Schulz
#35. We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.
Gayle Forman
#36. I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry
#37. Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,
the ties that have made others dependent on us,
and would cut them in two.
George Eliot
#38. The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?
Evalyn Walsh McLean
#39. I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.
Naoko Mori
#40. If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
Henry Williamson
#41. I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
Stephen Baldwin
#42. The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.
M.C. Halliday
#43. Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.
Moby
#44. I'm not a prince, my life has not been charming. I know to expect the worst out of everything and everyone.
Victoria Aveyard
#45. I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
Gail Tsukiyama
#46. To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#47. Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.
Robert Fulghum
#48. Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations ... absurdity is the key word ...
Eva Hesse
#49. Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has problems about how to believe.
Kathleen Norris
#50. I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.
Luke Evans
#51. My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.
Christopher Hitchens
#52. My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#53. Assamese life has more meaning than the violence, than its relationship with Delhi. Assam may not be sovereign politically, or economically, but the Assamese imagination has to remain sovereign.
Aruni Kashyap
#54. Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
Adeline Yen Mah
#55. I still believe, though. In existing. In ex nihilo nihil fit. If nothing comes from nothing, we cannot return to it. Ergo life has a reason and needs to be.
Lavie Tidhar
#56. My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
Trent Reznor
#57. As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#58. To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels like an eternity since I started school and a techno-social epoch since I moved to San Francisco. My phone couldn't even connect to the internet back then.
Robin Sloan
#59. There's no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.
Paulo Coelho
#60. There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
Seneca The Younger
#61. And then I feel something else. Something that's totally new. I feel the tiniest sensation of hope. Maybe my life isn't over. Maybe my life has just begun.
Blake Nelson
#62. Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.
Wayne Dyer
#63. I imagine the people whose lives are most intertwined with mine, and I realize life has gone on without me. The planet has not imploded because I, the girl who has always done what is expected of her, decided not to, just this once.
Rachel Friedman
#64. My life has changed for the better. It's just amazing. I have to catch myself sometimes. It's like a dream. It's a great thing.
Juicy J
#65. I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.
Chelsea Clinton
#66. I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
Sally Mann
#67. Life has a way of turning us into people we never knew we wanted to be.
Wendy A. Wood
#68. Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
Theodore Roosevelt
#70. Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
Marc Guggenheim
#71. A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may die with this illusion still intact because no circumstance of his life has obliged him to revise it.
Barry Unsworth
#72. Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
Tao Lin
#73. Everything in life has a price; each choice we make is a transaction.
It's only with the passage of time that we realize sometimes much to our regret whether the cost was worth it.
David Hontiveros
#74. Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
Steve Wozniak
#75. I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
Lorraine Hansberry
#76. I've heard believers speak of the coldness of science and the warmth of their faith. But my life has been warm too, and I have faith. Faith in love, and faith in the inherent beauty of a world that formed itself.
Alexandra Oliva
#77. Life has a way of turning things around. Those who mourn well know this. As a result, they also live well--with courage and curiosity.
Mari Ruti
#78. I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.
Sunny Deol
#79. So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
John Mayer
#80. This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.
Steve Almond
#81. The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Oscar Wilde
#82. Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.
Garrison Keillor
#83. For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
Mark Ruffalo
#84. So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
Marlon Riggs
#85. In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children. I got to do what I loved. How many people are that lucky?
Joe Paterno
#86. Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.
Lita Ford
#87. The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.
Sylvia Earle
#88. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
Ellen Hopkins
#89. The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president. Because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, often times, of someone whose life has been turned upside down hears from.
George W. Bush
#90. Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.
Gil Scott-Heron
#91. Stalin himself declared: Life has improved, comrades. Life is more joyous. . . .
Amor Towles
#92. My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.
Roland Martin
#93. The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
Bertrand Russell
#94. A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
P. J. O'Rourke
#95. If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.
Anne-Laure Bondoux
#96. As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer.
Bill Bright
#97. My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.
Florence Henderson
#98. Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ...
Erica Jong
#99. I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.
Liz Murray
#100. Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.
Macklemore
