Top 100 Life Only Quotes
#1. There are no negatives in life, only challenges to overcome that will make you stronger.
Eric Bates
#2. Have you ever thought to go away and never come back? Run away and lose your tracks, to go to a place far away and start living again, living a new life, only yours, really live? Did you ever think?
Luigi Pirandello
#3. Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
Isaac Marion
#4. The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
Thomas Aquinas
#5. Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders
#6. The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.
Susan Jeffers
#8. The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#9. There is no one that can make me look into their eyes and see the rest of my life. Only you.
Airicka Phoenix
#10. It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse.
Hermann Hesse
#11. Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
Peter Landesman
#12. Dearest friend, do you not see All that we perceive Only reflects and shadows forth What our eyes cannot see. Dearest friend, do you not hear In the clamor of everyday life Only the unstrung echoing fall of Jubilant harmonies. Vladimir Soloviev, Russian Gnostic and philosopher, 1892
J. Lincoln Fenn
#13. There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.
Mick Jagger
#14. I was so busy building my life only to wake and discover it was over
Hanya Yanagihara
#15. Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.
Rosamund Stone Zander
#16. There were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.
Danielle Steel
#17. It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. - MARCUS AURELIUS
Ryan Holiday
#18. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
Joseph Campbell
#19. Fear is the negative emotion that brings every traceable hardship into our life. Only Love can free us from fear.
Donald L. Hicks
#20. Life only makes sense when our highest ideal is to serve Christ!
Neymar
#21. Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?
Octavia E. Butler
#22. No one had ever told her about the ingredients of life, only of biscuits.
Jonathan Odell
#23. He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.
Milan Kundera
#24. Death and destruction are necessary to the health of the world, and therefore as natural, and lovable, as birth and life. Only priests and born cowards moan and weep over dying. Brave men face it with approving nonchalance.
Ragnar Redbeard
#25. What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
Sam Francis
#26. Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.
Karl Barth
#27. It's in that place that we're reminded that true life comes when we're willing to admit that we've reached the end of ourselves, we've given up, we've let go, we're willing to die to all of our desires to figure it out and be in control. We lose our life, only to find it.
Rob Bell
#28. By His death He proved that He possessed life only to hold it, and to spend it, for God.
Andrew Murray
#29. The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened
L.J. DeVet
#30. What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.
Maurice De Vlaminck
#31. Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
Jeanette Winterson
#32. Compare your life only with the commandments of God.
Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. But we advance into the mystery beyond life only by misunderstanding the living.
Michael W. Clune
#36. The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.
Karel Appel
#37. Life only gets harder, but you gotta get stronger.
Jhene Aiko
#38. Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Carl Sandburg
#39. You can't left your happiness depend on external factors.It comes from within you.That is the source of true happiness. Only then can you enjoy the pleasures and comforts of life. Only then can you notice the privilege of a such a life.
K.J. Kilton
#40. I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.
Christopher Lee
#41. Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them ...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#42. They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.
Haven Kimmel
#43. I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
Story Musgrave
#44. Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.
Dorothy Gilman
#45. Yes there would be danger. But wasn't that how things worked? Nothing was promised. People held on tight to the things they loved and cherished, enjoying the ride for as long as it lasted. There were no guarantees in life, only possibilities.
Aline Hunter
#46. These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior
E. O. Wilson
#47. If it weren't for love, the suffering we experience wouldn't be worth it. If it weren't for the suffering, we wouldn't cherish the good things life gives us. Sometimes it'll seem as though life only knocks you down, but you have to learn to pick yourself up and fight back.
Claire Contreras
#48. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
Salman Rushdie
#49. I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.
Anthony Powell
#50. If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Christopher Dawson
#51. I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.
Erich Maria Remarque
#52. There are 365 days in a year and you will meet all the colours of life throughout the year: The blue, the black, the pink ... Only blue is not a life, only pink is not a life, only black is not a life! Life is all the colours!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born.
C. JoyBell C.
#54. I'm the way the truth and the life. Only through me you will go to the father.
Ayan Khan
#55. There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
G.K. Chesterton
#56. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
S.A. Huchton
#57. My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary
Joseph Delaney
#58. In the spiritual life only one thing produces genuine joy and that is obedience.
Richard J. Foster
#59. Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
Natsuki Takaya
#60. I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
Edward Albee
#61. There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
Simon Travaglia
#62. Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
Aldous Huxley
#63. Divine truth becomes dynamic life only when we yield to Jesus by faith and follow Him.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#64. There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest.
Najeev Raj Nadarajah
#65. When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
Amy Purdy
#66. It's your life. Only you can choose what you make with it, whether it's chicken salad or chicken shit.
Alex Kava
#67. I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.
Bernard Beckett
#68. LORD, I am grateful for Your Word. It shows me how to live, and I realize my life only works if I'm living Your way. Meet me there in the pages and teach me what I need to know. "Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law" (Psalm 119:18).
Stormie O'martian
#69. Work is only a part of life. But work is life only when done in mindfulness. Otherwise, one becomes like the person who lives as though dead.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#71. There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
Laurence Overmire
#72. The devil sweeps people away by deceiving them, showing them a happy life only in the movies
Sunday Adelaja
#73. There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#74. There are no great things in life, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to Meet.
Rodney Masemola
#75. The only way a relationship between you and God can be established is if you become grateful and build up a standard of gratitude. Only then will fulfillment come in life. Only then can you be happy in life. Only then will you be fulfilled in life. Because in God we trust and in God we dwell.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#76. The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with a loving Father in Heaven and our Savior in the celestial kingdom with our families. We can obtain eternal life only through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.
Quentin L. Cook
#77. He was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#78. Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.
Gautama Buddha
#79. Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
John Burroughs
#80. What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.
Lydia Millet
#81. She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversions. Layering her life, only to strip it bare. Only to be alone in the end. Her life had been paired down to its solitary components.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#82. Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.
Bruce Schneier
#83. You reproduce your life only when you work in the area of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#84. You will be remembered in life only for your passions!
John C. Maxwell
#85. Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
Alfred North Whitehead
#87. We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and lasting commitment to the vigorous life. Only in this way can we be assured that the spirit and strength of America will be constantly replenished..
John F. Kennedy
#90. There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
Frank Leahy
#91. Your life only gets better when you get better.
Brian Tracy
#92. There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.
Orrin Woodward
#93. What's the purpose of being with someone if they don't change your life? She said that, and Julio was present when she said it: that life only had purpose if you found someone who changed it, who destroyed your life.
Alejandro Zambra
#94. Rumor has it: when you marry a Walsh you are set for life. Only one thing can screw it up.
Jessica Gordon
#95. One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed.
Dada Bhagwan
#96. Life only comes at us one day at a time. That's where we need to let God meet us.
Karen Kingsbury
#97. It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
#98. If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you'll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person ... has ever done great things because they played it safe. You've got to be true to yourself.
Carson Kressley
#99. There are no guarantees in this life, only strong possibilities. That's enough for me.
Morgan Rhodes
#100. In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.
Jacob Burckhardt
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