Life It Quotes

#1. It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or what you do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God.

Iyanla Vanzant

#2. You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

Woody Allen

#3. Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

Simon Hoggart

#5. If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.

James Patterson

#6. Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

Kim Basinger

#7. I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things I don't experience firsthand, but most of the time it's about relationships - things that are going on in my head.

Meiko

#8. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices.

Mitch Albom

#9. Our desire is the warmth in our life, it's not a blanket.

Greg Plitt

#10. If you struggle to fill something as big as life, it will swallow you.

Bryant McGill

#11. At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

Pirjo Honkasalo

#12. If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

Paul Taylor

#13. We need to live in the now of life, it can't be about how much we suffered yesterday or what we might face tomorrow. It's about today. And today was good"

Willow in To Dance With Dolphins

Bonnie Leon

#14. When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#15. Just when you think you have a handle on life, it breaks.

Jill Shalvis

#16. It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

Yaya Han

#17. Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

#18. This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

Laurie Halse Anderson

#19. Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

Duane Elgin

#20. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

Adora Svitak

#21. Don't mess with Teresa. If I teach you nothing else in life, it's that. Don't mess with Teresa.

James Dashner

#22. Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

Amber Tamblyn

#23. Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

David Suzuki

#24. The interior life is the spiritual life. It focuses on truth and the good. It

Pope John Paul II

#25. Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#26. Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.

Ruby Rose

#27. Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

Bailey Vincent

#28. I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.

Lyle Lovett

#29. Boxing changed my life. It's like a drug; you can't believe how great it is! Let me tell you something, you hit somebody on the chin, the guy goes down, the crowd roars ... Wow! You really feel something!

Tony Danza

#30. Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple.

T. Harv Eker

#31. If I am only sure of one thing in life, it's that it's meant to be lived!

Alex Gaskarth

#32. If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'

Diana Nyad

#33. For life, it doesn't matter how much you earn and how you hold your different relationships, but what's important for life is, what kind of progress, you have achieved from inside, while going through different aspects of life.

Roshan Sharma

#34. Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart ...

Ken Keyes Jr.

#35. Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

Jacques D'Amboise

#36. As it turns out, that feeling of being lost or listless or never achieving your potential doesn't contain itself within any certain decade of life; it just lives in you until you learn how to cope with it or let it go.

Hannah Hart

#37. Whatever the Garden had once been, now it was seething with corruption. Abundant life. It makes me laugh, in retrospect. Mr. Faust, did you know that there's a medical term for abundant life? For cellular life bursting out of control and running wild.

Craig Schaefer

#38. I've been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It's like my last luxury.

Lana Del Rey

#39. Alec put out his hand. "We're going to make it through this, but just in case ... " Mark shook the man's hand, squeezing it. "Thanks for the billion times you saved my life." "It's been an honor serving with you, kid. Maybe today you'll save mine a couple more times." "I'll do my best.

James Dashner

#40. I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#41. The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

Francis Bacon

#42. I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously ...

Mu Xin

#43. To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.

Rajneesh

#44. What I'm talking about is fun. It's every day, it's high energy, and it gives you guidance and healing for your life. It puts a fizz of magic into the air.

Robert Moss

#45. In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

David Bergen

#46. Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

Robert Preston

#47. Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities.

Nathan Myhrvold

#48. Your life is truly your life ... it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

Lance Wubbels

#49. If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

John Goddard

#50. Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

David Allen

#51. Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

George Santayana

#52. Just like life, it was only the contrast with darkness that had made it seem brighter.

Osman Welela

#53. The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.

Linda Ronstadt

#54. Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

Jon Meacham

#55. Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

Nastia Liukin

#56. Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

Victoria Justice

#57. Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

John C. Maxwell

#58. Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#59. No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

John Lydon

#60. Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us - namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a "living" book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.

Billy Graham

#61. In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Bill Vaughan

#62. Only your children's grandchildren may remember our stories, but the stories are not what makes a life. It's living with a smile and a free spirit that will ripple throughout the stars.

T.S. Wieland

#63. Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.

Marcel Proust

#64. My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

Rajneesh

#65. I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype.

Chris Hardwick

#66. The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

Jennifer Lopez

#67. In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

Keith Ferrazzi

#68. Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.

Thomas Narofsky

#69. Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Charlie Sheen

#70. For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

Genndy Tartakovsky

#71. I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do I Let A Good Man Down?' Let me tell you, I didn't write that song - because if I have a good man, I ain't going to let him down.

Sharon Jones

#72. Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher

#73. Everyone is looking for the answer. They do not want to find the answer, trust me. Unfortunately, the answer will find them. Life - it's like one of those unpleasant nature documentaries. To be the cameraman instead of the subjects, eh?

Laird Barron

#74. You can use whatever term you want: besetting sin, shadow side, strength and weakness. The very thing that makes you you, that makes you great, that makes you different from everyone else is also the thing that, unchecked, will ruin you. For me, it's lust for life. It's energy, curiosity, hunger.

Shauna Niequist

#75. A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.

Margo Kaufman

#76. I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

Carrie Underwood

#77. You have this thing called a life. It's only you that gets to live it and you only get to do it one time.

Cecily Anne Paterson

#78. Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

#79. Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.

Chris Prentiss

#80. Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

Rick Warren

#81. True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough.

Ronald Rolheiser

#82. When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

Amanda Beard

#83. I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.

Henry David Thoreau

#84. As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Jane Addams

#85. Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

Isaac Asimov

#86. If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

Naveen Jain

#87. Sometimes I feel like I never actually make any of my own. Choices, I mean. My entire life it just seems I never ... you know, had a real say about any of it. Now this last one, cancer ... all I have left is how I choose to approach this.'

Walter White

#88. In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Andy Garcia

#89. We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Sandy Duncan

#90. You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

Timothy Ferriss

#91. In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony. But when the relations between spouses are uncertain and there is neither the one nor the other, nothing can be undertaken.

Leo Tolstoy

#92. Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#93. You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Arnold Bennett

#94. The professor had refused surgery for the rupturing aorta that was wiping his personal equation off the blackboard of life. "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," Einstein had told his physicians.

Tom Robbins

#95. Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Herbert M. Shelton

#96. There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

Fred Frith

#97. Patience is ... clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.

Neal A. Maxwell

#98. While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life ... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

David Simon

#99. You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell

Judith McNaught

#100. Am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That is how I explain it to myself. It can't be helped! He said no more, but expressed his

Leo Tolstoy