Top 100 Life Means Quotes
#1. Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich.
Wallace D. Wattles
#2. Now you're here and everything's changing
Suddenly life means so much
I can't wait to wake up tomorrow
And find out this promise is true
I will never have to go back to
The day before you
Rascal Flatts
#3. Saving a life isn't just pulling a friend from the fire," he explains, the daredevil playing in his wet,
excited eyes. "It's thereafter keeping him from the fire. Saving a life means saving it over and over.
Daryl Banner
#4. He covered my hand with his. No matter what happens, we're friends first. I hope you know how much having you in my life means to me.
Cindi Madsen
#5. Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.
Jeremy Hardy
#6. His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.
Jill Briscoe
#7. I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.
Jeffrey Brown
#8. The ability to get to a higher level in our life means that we have to generate the energy to be able to do so, and generally, we do that by a fall. Spiritual advances are almost always proceeded by a fall of one kind or another.
Wayne Dyer
#9. The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.
Jim George
#10. There are such moments in a life. Solitary seconds on which the reality of what life means pivots and turns from a dead end toward a road of untrodden grass that stretches on forever.
Jonathan Maberry
#11. The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
D.T. Suzuki
#12. That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.
John Burnside
#13. To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition
Bill Johnson
#14. Having a home means having somewhere to go back to. Having a family means having someone to defend. Having a life means knowing you'll do anything to keep it.
Mira Grant
#16. So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does she think that this is what life means? She goes to work in the dark and comes home when it's dark. Does she know what the world looks like when the sun is shining?
Jinat Rehana Begum
#18. A spiritual life means: It is now or never.
Sri Chinmoy
#19. One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#20. We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
George Mallory
#21. Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#23. But if you know that you've got to be somewhere in half an hour, there's no way you can achieve that. So the art life means a freedom to have time for the good things to happen. There's not always a lot of time for other things.
David Lynch
#24. A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions
being freer and more at ease as human beings.
Ingvar Kamprad
#25. Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#27. To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
Arthur Schnitzler
#28. Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
Watchman Nee
#29. In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.
Nhat Hanh
#30. What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us.
Jay Woodman
#31. Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your story. I'm your husband and I don't even get to tell it. So I don't care how lovesick this director is, he doesn't tell it. ... No one gets to tell you what your life means!" ~Alvis
Jess Walter
#33. You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
Robert Browning
#34. In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.
Doutzen Kroes
#35. Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.
Henry Alonso Myers
#36. A worthy life involves loving as loved folks do, sharing the ridiculous mercy God spoiled us with first. (It really is ridiculous.) It means restoring people, in ordinary conversations and regular encounters. A worthy life means showing up when showing up is the only thing to do.
Jen Hatmaker
#37. The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
Bob Black
#38. No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
Lafcadio Hearn
#39. Success in life means living by your values.
Russ Harris
#40. A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.
Allan Bloom
#41. To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
Hermann Hesse
#42. The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.
Clay Shirky
#43. My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.
Hope Lyda
#44. This is your life!" Jared shouted.
"That's right!" Kami shouted back at him. "It's my life! I get to decide what to do with it! Don't you dare act like my life means more to you than it does to me!
Sarah Rees Brennan
#45. Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
Robert Breault
#46. To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
Moby
#47. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
Jane Addams
#48. If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.
Minor White
#49. To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
William Mountford
#50. Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!
Dada Bhagwan
#51. You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.
Atul Gawande
#52. Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#53. Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
George Bernard Shaw
#54. Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#55. The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.
Dada Bhagwan
#56. I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
Oliver Sacks
#57. The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.
Ayn Rand
#58. I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.
Verghese Kurien
#59. A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.
Tony Curl
#60. If your life means nothing to anyone, it does mean a lot to you and that's what is important.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#61. Having a brilliant life means going outside your comfort zone. And sometimes discomfort shows us ways we can improve.
Franklin Veaux
#63. The unknowable is the beauty, the meaning, the aspiration, the goal. Because of the unknowable, life means something. When everything is known, then everything is flat. You will be fed up, bored.
Osho
#65. The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
Stephen Jay Gould
#66. No one gets to tell you what your life means!
Jess Walter
#67. The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley
#68. If you experience any emotion like frustration, hesitation or anger, while planning your dream life , means you need to clear some mental blocks.
Hina Hashmi
#69. Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot
Sunday Adelaja
#70. The worldly life means a puzzle of 'wrong beliefs'.
Dada Bhagwan
#71. Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
Francis Schaeffer
#72. Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming.
Jay Woodman
#73. To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#74. Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.
Ray Davies
#75. When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.
Terry Crews
#76. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society ... the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.
Pope Francis
#77. Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
Oprah Winfrey
#78. Living the Christian life means striving for holiness.
Billy Graham
#79. ...don't simplify your life so you can do more. Simplify your life so you can focus on what matters - and you are what matters. Simplifying your life means focusing on who you are physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you want to choose joy daily, that's the place to start.
Kay Warren
#80. I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
Mariska Hargitay
#81. The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.
Dada Bhagwan
#82. A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party ... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Dan Jenkins
#83. The reason why it is easy to kill another person must be that one's imagination is too sluggish to conceive what his life means to him - the infinite possibilities of a succession of days which are furled in him, & have already been spent.
Virginia Woolf
#85. We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable.
Eugene H. Peterson
#86. A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight - any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance. A tall, straight-bodied, and by no means ill-favored Highlander in the prime of his life is breathtaking.
Diana Gabaldon
#87. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
Brandon Boyd
#88. Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
Paulo Coelho
#89. When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and truisms, cliched as hell, the kind of stuff a person means.
Kate Hattemer
#90. I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing ... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.
Amy Tan
#91. The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.
Fazlur Rahman
#92. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. Fitness means you "fit" into the life that you desire.
Toni Sorenson
#94. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.
Richard Misrach
#95. Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control
yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.
Tony Robbins
#96. The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Edward Thorndike
#97. Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.
Margaret Atwood
#98. Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.
Mike Yaconelli
#99. If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.
Henry IV Of France
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