Top 100 Life Takes Quotes
#1. The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Ptolemy
#2. We have a lifetime ahead of us to decide what we're going to do. I love you; heart and soul, and we're going to grow old together. We'll make things right and find our way, no matter how long it takes or where life takes us.
Ella Dominguez
#3. When life takes something that is yours, you have every right to demand it back!
Megan Squires
#4. Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.
Joyce Meyer
#5. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
Wally Lamb
#6. That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
#7. There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
Bryan Adams
#8. I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle ...
Questlove
#9. Nothing in life is static. The course your life takes depends on the choices you make.
Elisabeth Naughton
#10. Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
Adyashanti
#11. Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
Kajol
#12. Your life takes on a different meaning when you break your own heart.
Heidi McLaughlin
#13. I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.
Pico Iyer
#14. Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie
#15. Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.
Bob Dylan
#16. And life takes place
inside us, with the eternal light
of an ecstatic day
which is going on somewhere else.
It is a beautiful thing,
something true and not yet real, beautiful!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#17. Maybe it's not about having a plan, or even a plan B. Maybe it's about seeing where life takes you and learning to enjoy the ride.
Jenny O'Connell
#18. We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life takes; but, alas, this perception has more to do with our desires-with how we want to view ourselves-than with reality
Dan Ariely
#19. Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.
Georges St-Pierre
#20. Strange, isn't it?" he asks.
"Where life takes you and
how much can change.
Emma Cameron
#21. When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
Andrea Thompson
#22. the bleakness of life takes many forms, and that none of those forms should be permitted to obscure the central mission, which is to record it honestly, powerfully, and continuously.
Ben Greenman
#23. If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.
Richard Wilhelm
#24. The sky is the limit. I'm just following where life takes me. It's been an incredible journey.
Christina Aguilera
#26. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
Paulo Coelho
#27. Never forget that family is the most important thing. No matter how far your life takes you away, your family is always here. And if you're nothing else in this world, you're a Kelly, and that makes you loved.
Maya Banks
#28. A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.
Anita Shreve
#29. Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D.H. Lawrence
#30. If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.
Jo Coudert
#31. The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.
Barbara De Angelis
#32. If life takes you long way, take a shortcut!
Baba
#33. Let's be happy the way life takes shape, it is all decided and destined to be that way and we can't change anything unless we first change ourselves.
Auliq Ice
#34. You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
Art Alexakis
#35. Homeless person or business person, doctor or teacher, whatever your background may be, the same holds true for each of us: life takes on the meaning that you give it.
Liz Murray
#36. Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.
Buddy Rice
#37. What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.
Ellen Stofan
#38. My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.
Cesar Millan
#39. Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.
Melissa McClone
#40. Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.
Sylvain Reynard
#41. Life takes twists and turns that lead us on an unplanned journey. With our own wishes tucked away in our pockets we button our spiritual coat and trudge through the storms of reality. We follow fate. Karen Kelly Boyce, "In the Midst of Wolves" Chapter 2
Karen Kelly Boyce
#42. Sometimes life takes you into a dark place where you feel it's impossible to breathe. You think you've been buried, but don't give up, because if truth be told, you've actually been planted.
Karen Gibbs
#43. Everything in life is harder than you think and everything in life takes longer than you think.
Evelyn Marshall
#44. No matter where life takes you ... the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.
Susan Vreeland
#45. Life takes everything from you - to give you everything.
Daya Kudari
#46. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
Miguel Ruiz
#47. When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace.
You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.
Eckhart Tolle
#48. But at least the way was clear now. When you step off a cliff, your life takes a very definite direction.
Terry Pratchett
#49. Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.
David Bowie
#51. Life takes constant adjustment and growth. Don't get settled in or it will surprise you and not in a good way.
Jean Williams
#53. No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.
Susan Vreeland
#54. Sometimes life takes oreos. But we have to learn to deal with it.
Kayleigh Zubrod
#55. My loyalty and friendship has no bounds, no matter where life takes us you'll always have my hand.
Ellie Williams
#56. When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.
Eckhart Tolle
#57. Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
Barack Obama
#58. Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development.
Nita Leland
#59. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.
Michael J. Fox
#60. Every goodbye calls for preparation, but most times, life takes us by surprise.
Elisabetta Gnone
#61. If I had planned my life, it never would have ended up like this. So maybe it's kind of fun not to plan. Maybe it's more fun just to see where life takes you.
Joanna Gaines
#62. Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
Jimmy Carter
#63. It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.
Benoite Groult
#64. When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy.
Lynn A. Robinson
#65. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
Helen Keller
#66. Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.
Wm. Paul Young
#67. You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you musn't suffer from being wrong.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#68. I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
Emily Giffin
#69. I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.
Frank Gorshin
#70. Forever. Mine. With me. Wherever life takes us. I want my life to be with you. Marry me, Maren.
Maya Banks
#71. Take advantage of life, before life takes advantage of you
Marcus Newman
#72. Sometimes Life Takes you down on an escalator only to lead you to the plane where you will fly
Samer Chidiac
#73. I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.
Mandy Moore
#74. Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.
H.P. Lovecraft
#75. I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
Michael Gerber
#76. The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
#77. Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.
Jimmy Buffett
#79. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.
Gerber Michael E.
#80. First Globals are ready to go anywhere, experience everything, and work and live in exotic places, and for them, family life takes priority over work life and a flexible, diverse, collaborative, fun learning environment is key.
Susan Scott
#81. Don't worry about the past, it's only a shadow wanting to follow you under the brilliance of the sun. And the future is only the moon, still glowing in honor of the sun. Live in the moment and embrace where life takes you.
Jes Fuhrmann
#82. I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.
Samuel R. Delany
#83. Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your
dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover
who you are.
Nick Vujicic
#84. No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!
Mac Miller
#85. What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.
Frederick Lenz
#86. Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
Andrea Corr
#87. Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
Kalidasa
#88. Life takes up one long, winding road to fulfill its seemingly endless journey, and when we find ourselves stumble upon forks in the road, we choose wisely.
Amani Abbas
#89. Life takes turns that we don't expect and even the best of us can end up in a place we never expected.
A Meredith Walters
#90. Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.
Gore Vidal
#91. Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown
#92. Life takes us on different paths ... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and embrace them.
(Lara Lington - to Sadie Lancaster)
Sophie Kinsella
#93. I understand that at times, life takes us in different directions than we planned.
Nichole Chase
#95. Your life will get better if you truly believe it will. First ... You must plant that seed of faith and then sprinkle it with patience because anything good in life takes time. But if you don't give up you will see changes. It's all up to you!
Timothy Pina
#96. We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more.
Jennifer Echols
#97. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
Erin Morgenstern
#98. Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built.
Max Heindel
#99. When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn and you can't step back. All you can do is keep moving forward and remember what you've learned.
Ingrid Law
#100. All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.
Paulo Coelho
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