Life Something Quotes

#1. Dear me, what an unsatisfactory world it was! When one did find a nice kind of life something or somebody always seemed to shove you out of it just as you were beginning to enjoy it.

Hugh Lofting

#2. I just mean that everything eventually ends. The two suns are always rising somewhere. That's part of life. Something ends and then something else will begin.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

Barbara Johnson

#4. I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for ... the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

Lou Holtz

#6. I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

Jeff Daniels

#7. The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

John Bradshaw

#8. When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real ...

Mary Oliver

#10. every time you think you can have a normal life, something will stir up your past. So either you put a fucking bullet in your skull or figure out a way to make your remaining life mean something.

Ben Lieberman

#11. That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

Dean Koontz

#12. The day was beautiful, that first day in September, the kind of perfect day that made life something to savor, when hot dogs really were delicious, ice cream was served, and egos were forgotten.

Kate Alcott

#13. When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

Harold S. Kushner

#14. Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?

Zoey Dean

#15. Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

James Freeman Clarke

#16. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the facade of your life, something beautiful, good, and eternal is happening.

John O'Donohue

#17. Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Tom Brady

#18. But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

Celeste Ng

#19. Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.

Sally Field

#20. Thank God for all of your short comings because it gives the people who don't belong in your life something to hang their insecurities on as they drift away in a cloud of delusional perfection.

Carl Henegan

#21. THERE must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know it ceases to exist.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#22. Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

George Jones

#23. Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

Rufus Wainwright

#24. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

Michael Meade

#25. Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

Bill Crawford

#26. I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it"? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it - that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?

Virginia Woolf

#27. You could start with something real. With one day from your life. Something that confused or intrigued you, something you want to explore. Start there and see what happens.

Rainbow Rowell

#28. There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

Joseph Campbell

#29. When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens. We become so entangled in our own thoughts and emotions that we lose contact with the bigger picture.

Culadasa

#30. See beyond the vision of your eyes, to believe and trust that there is something more to life - something bigger and greater than where we stand and what we know with our minds.

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#31. Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

Joan Cusack

#32. ...that's all I ever wanted back, to have a home, a family. All I wanted was clarity in my life. Something that made sense, something that I could hold onto, someone I could love without a doubt and be my home. Alex, you're my clarity. You. Are. My. Home.

M. Clarke

#33. I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely.

Jewel Staite

#34. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Benny Goodman

#35. It isn't the Universe that's following our logic, it's we that are constructed in accordance with the logic of the Universe. And that gives what I might call a definition of intelligent life: something that reflects the basic structure of the Universe.

Fred Hoyle

#36. For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better - it creates a chain reaction.

Leon Brown

#37. Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.

Clarice Lispector

#38. Every time you take a human life, something - a darkness - grows inside of you, pushing you out, until eventually there's nothing but that darkness left.

Julie Hockley

#39. I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder.

Jim Butcher

#40. Though it was the worst season in her life, something wonderful came of it. She found a relationship with Jesus.

Karen Kingsbury

#41. But I think for the first time in my life, something has mattered enough for me to take a chance. I'm way more terrified of losing you than I ever could be of trying and failing.

Penelope Ward

#42. No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Denis Waitley

#43. I might be a beast astray, with no sense of its environment, yet there was some meaning in my foolish life, something in me gave an answer and was the receiver of those distant calls from worlds far above.

Hermann Hesse

#44. I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.

Graham Greene

#45. Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description ... we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.

Aristotle.

#47. There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Idina Menzel

#48. And so there must be in life something like a catastrophic turning point, when the world as we know ceases to exist. A moment that transform us into a different person from one heartbeat to the next.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#49. I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

Will Patton

#50. If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

Timothy Keller

#51. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.

Tanya Lloyd Kyi

#52. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.

Ruth Ozeki

#53. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Michael J. Fox

#54. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.

Haruki Murakami

#55. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

James Weldon Johnson

#56. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

Jessye Norman

#57. In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping off a cliff and hoping you'll land on something soft.

Ricky Star

#58. They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary life was menaced by no fault of his.

Joseph Conrad

#59. 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

#60. Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?

Amy Summers

#61. Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003

Ray Kurzweil

#62. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret.

Liane Moriarty

#63. Something is always happening somewhere.

Mitch Albom

#64. If it is awakened, it communicates a new life to the intelligence in which it lives, so that it becomes a living awareness of itself: and this awareness is not so much something that we ourselves have, as something that we are. It is a new and indefinable quality of our living being.

Thomas Merton

#65. Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

Dalton Trumbo

#66. Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Tim Sandlin

#67. I love you, too, James, but that doesn't give you a free pass." "No, it doesn't. Being your Dom does that, Love. I've compromised far more for you than I've ever done for anyone or anything in my life. Controlling you sexually is something I won't be bending on ...

R.K. Lilley

#68. As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Miranda Hart

#69. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#70. Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.

Thomas Merton

#71. Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Aleksandar Hemon

#72. When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Helena Christensen

#73. Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I'm like, 'How did this happen?' I've gone through some of the craziest life experiences because of YouTube.

Lilly Singh

#74. You have made my life into something so extraordinary, you can't even know.

Cynthia Hand

#75. We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists.

Yoweri Museveni

#76. Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

Karl Lagerfeld

#77. I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse - to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.

Tracy Chevalier

#78. There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like "I can do this with my life" kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor where other people feel like they can hire you.

Rosemarie DeWitt

#79. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Lois Lowry

#80. There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn't seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.

Rick Atkinson

#81. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.

Kimberly Derting

#82. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.

Alan Paton

#83. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

Martin Amis

#84. I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.

Marilynne Robinson

#85. I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

Danielle Bernock

#86. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

Wallace Stegner

#87. No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#88. It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.

Michael Keaton

#89. An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

Anna Held

#90. I personally believe that I was ... a previous life or something ... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to.

Marc Bolan

#91. Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'. In this sense Heidegger is not simply 'mistaken' - he just asks us, as philosophers mostly do, to think more carefully about what we're saying.

George Pattison

#92. You make life when you play," I said. "You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.

Anne Rice

#93. I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

Billie Piper

#94. . . . i believe my life had to be annihilated or something in order for me to find myself.

Harriet Showman

#95. Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.

Amy Alkon

#96. One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Jane Austen

#97. You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

Stockard Channing

#98. Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

Diane Duane

#99. There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

H.M. Ward

#100. Had music not delivered Richard, too, on more than one occasion, from a life he'd believed himself trapped in? The tempos had changed, but that almost didn't matter. The point, now as then, was to tune in to something bigger than yourself, and to feel around you others who felt as you did.

Garth Risk Hallberg