Top 100 Life Its Quotes
#1. California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life ... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
J.B. Priestley
#2. The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson
#3. In life iTS only a Matter of Time Too Find the Suitable Colors.
Jan Jansen
#4. When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
Albert Claude
#5. Associated with gratitude is virtue. I think they are related because he who is disposed to shun virtue lacks appreciation of life, its purposes, and the happiness and well-being of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#6. Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.
George Eliot
#7. It's not that we get all the answers in life. Its just that the questions disappear and there we flow with life - quenched yet thirsty; full yet empty.
Rashmit Kalra
#8. One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#9. Life Its A Journey That Hurts Without, Asking Are You Ready?
Andile Num
#10. The sense of the wonder of human life, its beauty and terror and pain, and the power in men to do and to hear, is in Aeschylus and in Shakespeare as in no other writer. Thy
Edith Hamilton
#11. If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.
Frederick Lenz
#12. There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh
#13. Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
Marlo Thomas
#14. Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.
Joseph Campbell
#15. He gave the tree of life its name, not because it could confer on man that life with which he had been previously endued, but in order that it might be a symbol and memorial of the
John Calvin
#16. I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
#17. Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.
Thomas Merton
#18. She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.
Lorrie Moore
#19. Your success and happiness lie within you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Helen Keller
#20. During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.
Jean Piaget
#21. They were all impatient for a kill. They wanted to fill their noses with the hot, acrid death that issued from a deer's carcass minutes after it drew its last breath, the smell that allowed them, as men, to tremble momentarily with the sensation of life, its heat and quiet.
Christopher Bollen
#22. (...) there it had happened; the old ecstasy of life; its invincible assault; for it was unpleasant, at the same time that it rejoiced and rejuvenated and filled the veins and nerves with threads of ice and fire; it was terrifying.
Virginia Woolf
#23. Life ... Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride ... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay ...
Bilal Hussain
#24. The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
W. Somerset Maugham
#25. Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.
G-Eazy
#26. What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?
Sri Chinmoy
#27. Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
Bertrand Russell
#28. I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind.
Jay Woodman
#29. In life its not about falling down or not, it's about getting back up.
Nathan Hangen
#30. We might put it this way: every group already has, in one sense, a rule of life - its values and ways of doing things. The challenge is to identify and to authenticate what they are. A group can become a truer expression of community when it is able to express its own tacit rule.
The Society Of Saint John The Evangelist
#31. Find love, Marcus. Love gives life its meaning. You're stronger when you love. You're bigger. You go further.
Joel Dicker
#32. Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.
Lance B. Wickman
#33. All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.
Stephen Leacock
#34. In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
Isaac Rosenfeld
#35. One day's experience had been the turning point in Joseph's life. Its terrible calamity had transformed him from a petted child to a man, thoughtful, courageous, and self-possessed. -
Ellen G. White
#36. Clearly we could devastate the world ... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands
David Attenborough
#37. The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Gustav Mahler
#38. Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.
Sam Hinton
#39. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
William Cowper
#40. Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
Neil Gaiman
#41. We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.
Marcel Proust
#42. Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!
Steph Cook
#43. Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad
#44. The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren't the kind that Anna wanted to admire too closely.
A. Ashley Straker
#45. The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. - SIDNEY HOOK
Joseph Heller
#46. Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#47. That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales ...
Tony Kushner
#48. Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Paulo Coelho
#49. I appreciate all my fans, on all occasions, everyday of my life. Its your presence & your loyalty that has given me great strength
Michael Jackson
#50. It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play - the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life - its facility, its use.
William H Gass
#51. In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them.
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#52. But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.
Bulent Ecevit
#53. Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.
Joan D. Chittister
#54. Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.
Mandisa
#55. If you are open to receiving the essential nature of life, its intelligence will flow through you like a great river.
Bryant McGill
#56. The whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor; I, the continuer; I, the person miraculously appointed to carry it on.
Virginia Woolf
#57. Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor ... Daenerys, sweet queen, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it gives me to bask once more in your presence.
George R R Martin
#58. True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...
Maximus Freeman
#59. once you give someone a hope in its own life, the life its self is gonna give you back the happiness
Khaled Besrour
#60. Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
Theodor Adorno
#61. A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.
Roy DeCarava
#62. There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven, in which the misfortune of one would stagger them all. It was a garment, this life. Its beauty outside, its warmth within.
James Salter
#63. A nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.
Orhan Pamuk
#64. The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#65. the life of a slave must be different from a master but living life its self is the same
Mariam
#66. It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
Werner Herzog
#67. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#68. New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
Francis Picabia
#69. Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous Protestant monotheism.
Page DuBois
#70. Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.
Michel Foucault
#71. A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
Douglas Adams
#72. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
Julia Hill
#73. Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are and where you are in life.
D. Alyce Domain
#75. The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to search for the reality behind the expression of fine sentiments.
Theodore Dalrymple
#76. Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter ... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice ...
John McLeod
#77. Nothing is to be done, its just life we need to do! That has to be done!
Fereidoon Yazdi
#78. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.
Krista Tippett
#79. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
Arthur C. Clarke
#80. How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.
Catherynne M Valente
#81. The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
Ben Shapiro
#82. My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?
Nnamdi Azikiwe
#83. Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.
Ralph Bakshi
#84. We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'
Ayn Rand
#85. My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#87. Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#88. In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.
Charles Baudelaire
#89. Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.
Peter Heller
#90. For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent ... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.
Herbert Schiller
#91. Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.
Thomas Mullen
#92. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#93. And this should not surprise us. The plunder of black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting to which, likely to the end of our days, we must invariably return.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#94. You've got one life, live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he's lousy and walk out the door. This is your time. This is your life. You know what? Dream as big as you want to, its the cheapest thing you'll ever do.
Jared Leto
#95. Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
John Galsworthy
#96. Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
Honore De Balzac
#97. Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#98. The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it's body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light.
Kelly Easton
#99. The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth, but the soul must revere it, cherish it, love it as a priceless gem; and this human life must be guided and shaped by it in order to fulfill its destiny.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#100. Thus he became one with a life in its pure state, he rediscovered a paradise given only to the most private or the most intelligent animals. At the point where the mind denies the mind, he touched his truth and with it his extreme glory, his extreme love.
Albert Camus
