Top 100 Life Should Be Quotes
#1. Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
#2. We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.
Philip Yancey
#3. The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
Jeffrey Tucker
#4. The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
Bertrand Russell
#5. The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#8. When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
Tara Brach
#9. Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#11. If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.
Kathleen Flinn
#12. If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made livable based on who they are and not on an abstract moralistic notion of how they ought to be.
Judith Warner
#13. Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be,
Lee Kuan Yew
#14. Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.
Charles A. Reich
#15. The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
Christopher Monckton
#16. The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God ... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.
Jerry Bridges
#17. The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.
Dennis Rainey
#18. I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
Sting
#19. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
Fran Lebowitz
#21. Finding someone to love for the rest of your life should be the easiest thing in the world. I guess the easiest things are the hardest for me.
Julian Aguilar
#22. Your life should be of benefit to others and you should always inspire them
Sunday Adelaja
#23. The purpose of life should be to attain happiness by serving humanity with love and utmost sincerity.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Love like life should be maddening to the point of fulfillment. It should make the sun shine brighter, and when they look at you, the earth should never be standing still.
Nicole Banks
#25. Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#26. Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
Simone Weil
#27. Life should be larger than life.
Size is important to escape normalization.
Karl Lagerfeld
#28. I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
Sherman Alexie
#29. Not everything in life should be a battle." I'm
Ellie Wade
#30. There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life ... Life should be celebrated!
Joyce Meyer
#32. Perhaps our vision of how life should be is actually no fun at all, and neglects to include the exciting people we have yet to meet, who make the stupid ways life seems to happen, happy after all.
Sheila Heti
#33. Life should be lived more from the heart and less from the head.
John Paul Warren
#34. Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#35. It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#36. One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
Billy Graham
#37. The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
Bertrand Russell
#38. My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.
Terry McMillan
#39. Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.
Martin Luther
#40. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
Lou Holtz
#41. It felt as if an only life should be better than good enough, but how many efforts for more have ended with having nothing?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#42. Everything in your life should be subject to the main purpose of life.
Sunday Adelaja
#43. Laughter and happiness is what life should be about, that's your remedy for everything.
Fauja Singh
#44. A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.
Radhanath Swami
#45. Purpose in life should be that your inner wealth is able to outshine your external wealth.
Gian Kumar
#46. I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.
Michael Nutter
#47. I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#48. I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.
Meister Eckhart
#49. Life should be something that can hold and pass a person's thoughts - Asuna
Reki Kawahara
#50. I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer - and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#51. Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
Fulton J. Sheen
#52. He was trying to accept that there were certain things that would never conform to his idea of how life should be, no matter how intensely he hoped or pretended they might.
Hanya Yanagihara
#53. Your goal in life should be to produce concrete product
Sunday Adelaja
#54. For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.
Kim Novak
#55. I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Vachel Lindsay
#56. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.
Ray Bradbury
#57. Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
Ray Bradbury
#58. Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed
Leo Tolstoy
#59. Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
Alexander MacLaren
#60. They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.
Myrna Loy
#62. Don't wait to start living. Live now! Your life should be real in this very moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#63. Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#64. Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out ... hurts worse than a lie.
Mercedes Lackey
#65. In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
Alice Walker
#66. A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
Thomas Brooks
#67. Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.
Oliver Reed
#68. The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough.
Leslye Walton
#69. Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution of life should be due to mere chance than that a particular order in a pack of cards should result from mechanical shuffling.
Leszek Kolakowski
#70. Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy
#71. You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
Jeanne Moreau
#72. Life should be lived as play.
Plato
#74. I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
Herbie Hancock
#75. I'm of the opinion that secrets kept in life should be honored in death, that nothing changes simply because you're not there to defend yourself.
Dave Eggers
#76. I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.
Gene Kranz
#77. Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.
Katie Kacvinsky
#78. You have the right to chose your destiny, otherwise you will be left to live someone else's idea of what your life should be.
Steven Redhead
#79. Experience has taught me choosing the right people to have in your life should be a well thought out, deliberate process.
Carlos Wallace
#80. Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
Narendra Modi
#81. The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies ... If the right to life is not defended decisively as a condition for all other rights of the person, all other references to human rights remain deceitful and illusory.
Pope John Paul II
#82. Life should be lived as a dream to see and enjoy the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#83. I guess, really, in summary, everything I've been trying to say is that your life should be full of stories you want to tell. If you don't want to tell it, ever, why are you doing it? Likewise, if no one else cares to hear your story, with limited exceptions, why are you doing it?
Nick Manning
#84. That's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
Jose Saramago
#85. Life should be dealt with in small bites, large gulps will choke you.
TA Guimont
#86. A true joy in life should be knowing that you have touched the heart of another human being
Steven Aitchison
#87. Life should be like a basket of chicken wings: salty, full of fat and vinegar, and surrounded by celery you'll never actually eat, even when you're greedily sopping up the last viscous streaks of buffalo sauce from the wax paper with your spit-stained index finger. Yes,
Joseph Fink
#88. Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.
Frederick Lenz
#89. I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.
Iain Duncan Smith
#90. Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity ...
Norman Foster
#91. I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.
Zachary Levi
#92. He claimed that a man's life should be valued according to the value of the things to which he gave his attention.
Marcus Aurelius
#93. He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
Alice Sebold
#94. I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.
Jim James
#95. Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.
Philippe Petit
#96. All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.
Jim George
#97. I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#98. Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.
Matt Salmon
#99. The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
Yehudi Menuhin
#100. Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
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