Top 75 Life Is Messy Quotes
#3. Life is messy. Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it -Dr. Lau
Gabrielle Zevin
#4. I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.
Patterson Hood
#5. Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
Tom Robbins
#6. Life is messy, relationships are messy, but sometimes you have to keep jumping in the mud to find the sweet spot. Or you can give up.
Dakota Cassidy
#7. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.
Amy Zhang
#8. The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
Kathy Ireland
#9. Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
Simon Beaufoy
#10. Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
Alan Moore
#11. Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.
Rose Quiello
#12. Life is messy. I'm ok with that as long as it's messy with you.
Sunny Wolfe
#13. Jesus operates beyond the tidy boundaries of good behavior. Rather than simply enforce His rules, we should show our kids His kingdom. That's where they'll discover a Savior to fall in love with. Out where life is messy and relationships are complicated. Where
Jen Hatmaker
#14. Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What's good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what's beautiful, when the way back seems impossible.
Sharon E. Rainey
#15. I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.
Robert Downey Jr.
#16. Life is messy
especially now
it will help if you accept the mess and let it be.
Kristin Hannah
#17. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories - in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.
Gloria Steinem
#18. Life is messy for the rest of us. You have it really good here, you know? Promise me you won't forget that.
Jessica Brody
#19. Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I've imagined. Usually it's better. So, I try not to dream but rather to pray. If there is one thing I know, it's that I have no clue what I want. I'm fickle. I'm picky. And I'm scared of a lot of things. Especially commitment.
Katie Kiesler
#20. Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.
Gabrielle Zevin
#21. Real life is messy because it is going somewhere. Things constantly need to be done because people are constantly growing.
Rachel Jankovic
#22. Life is messy though, you know? Sometimes it's worth it to jump in and get your hands dirty. Happiness and contentment don't come along very often, so when they do, you need to hold on with everything you've got. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, but at least you can say you tried.
Cate Ashwood
#23. Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy
Jennifer Gold
#24. Life is messy, and God knows that. One of the reasons He gave us the Bible is to equip us to live out our faith in the midst of our messy lives.
Wendy Blight
#25. Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Hugh Mackay
#26. Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.
Deborah Needleman
#27. Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy
Christopher Moore
#28. We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.
Marsha Norman
#29. Life is messy, violent, confusing, and hopeful.
Wally Lamb
#30. It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.
Alexandra Johnson
#31. Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.
Lynn Shelton
#32. I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
Kerry Washington
#33. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.
Sara Zarr
#34. Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.
Phil Jackson
#35. My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.
Kim Holden
#36. You see? This is why you don't get mixed up in people's lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.
Megan Crewe
#37. Messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms.
Michael Yaconelli
#38. There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
Tara Brach
#39. Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
Robert Downey Jr.
#40. Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
David Horsey
#41. Life is still life. It's still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.
Alyson Noel
#42. I realize life is a beautiful mess. You can make it more beautiful by accepting the way it is. If you don't accept, you'll mess it up.
Manasa Rao
#43. Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
James Arthur Ray
#44. You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.
Ben Aaronovitch
#45. In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists...The result, unlike the clean straight lines of logic, is often irregular, messy.
John M Barry
#46. Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
Anna Quindlen
#47. Everything about Wesley Ayers is messy. My three worlds are kept apart by walls and doors and locks, and yet here he is, tracking the Archive into my life like mud. I know what Da would say, I know, I know, I know. But the strange new overlap is scary and messy and welcome. I can be careful.
Victoria Schwab
#48. Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy".
Steve Maraboli
#49. Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
Harlan Coben
#50. Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.
John Keats
#51. You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.
Anne Lamott
#52. What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?
Richard Dawkins
#53. Life is never simple. It's messy, complicated, and at times debilitating.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#55. Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
Dorothy Day
#56. Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.
Ellen Hopkins
#57. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.
Denise Grover Swank
#58. Life is supposed to be messy. Being human means you will get our heart broken and your fingernails dirty.
Kaitlyn Jane Mauro
#59. The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.
Amy Dickinson
#60. Sometimes life is just messy no matter what you do," she [Emma] said.
Odette Beane
#61. To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.
Emily P. Freeman
#62. Life isn't the orderly black-and-white business we'd prefer it to be. It's messy and complicated and horribly blurred around the edges. All we can ever do is make the best of it. And maybe grab at those fleeting chances of happiness.' 'But never at the expense of anyone else's
Erica James
#63. Choosing life is always messy.
But it is there in the messiness, in the conflicted and often confused ways we live our lives, that we can learn how much mercy matters to us all.
Mathew N. Schmalz
#64. This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.
Michelle M. Pillow
#65. This is the middle.
Things have had time to get complicated,
messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore ...
This is the thick of things.
So much is crowded into the middle
... too much to name, too much to think about.
Billy Collins
#66. The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy.
Paul E. Miller
#67. Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and lies.
Laurie Forest
#68. Aunt Anne's lips quirked up in a smile. "Life is not a neat equation to be solved," she said. "It's messy and wild and unpredictable. That's the heartbreak of it, but that's also the glory of it.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#69. Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.
William J. Harris
#70. Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works
Danielle Steel
#71. In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
#72. Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.
Patrick Ness
#73. Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.
Enza Vita
#74. One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.
Melissa Pritchard
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