Top 67 Life Thought Provoking Quotes
#1. Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.
Basil Pearl
#2. As much as we strive towards the light, we still want to be embraced by the shadow.
Zoran Drvenkar
#3. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
J. Raymond
#5. Sometimes we choose the road we follow.
And sometimes the road chooses us.
Richie Singh
#6. Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.
Jessica Park
#7. Sometimes I wonder if we're all a little like Harold (a rooster). Real life carries on around us while we strut around in our own yards, thinking we're the ones in charge of things.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#8. Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look like. I'm not even sure if I have all the pieces.
Sharon M. Draper
#9. Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.
Helen Exley
#10. While she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.
Monica Ali
#11. My life is like an O Henry story ... the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.
Benjamin Percy
#13. Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,
Nomi Prins
#14. Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.
Zack Love
#15. Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?
Buffi Neal
#16. If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#17. If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?
Jodi Picoult
#18. It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth.
D.B. Harrop
#20. If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.
Julia Cameron
#21. I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.
Petra Remes
#22. If you were a brand, would you buy yourself or keep shopping?
Dean Del Sesto
#24. If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
Natsuo Kirino
#25. Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.
Mackenzi Lee
#26. I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.
Steve Pavlina
#27. May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#29. Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.
Nina Guilbeau
#30. That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
Haruki Murakami
#31. Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.
April Bryan
#32. If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?
Jill Archer
#33. Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them; the few find their destiny.
Shay Dawkins
#34. And there
Like I thought I knew
And aint life a bitch
Was his head on a silver platter
Valerie
#36. And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.
Alexander Maksik
#37. At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?
Buffi Neal
#38. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#39. For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.
Jermaine Watkins
#40. Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.
Wil Zeus
#41. Just when you've squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap
Tom Holt
#42. Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.
Audrey Greathouse
#43. Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it.
D.B. Harrop
#44. Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
#45. Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.
Shelley D Terrell
#46. It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
Haruki Murakami
#47. Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it
Bradley Bowman
#48. We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
Francis Chan
#49. Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
Tom Robbins
#50. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#52. Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.
C. Nzingha Smith
#53. Once they had been equal in their separate freedoms. They had set out to have children as lightly as if they were playing house, and now her necessarily domestic life bored him, and she was bound to it in her body and imagination. This imbalance was fated, built into their biology.
Tessa Hadley
#54. What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for your own life, do you ever really exist at all?
Maria Goodin
#55. And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life
not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#56. Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.
Steve Pavlina
#57. One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.
Rebecca McKinsey
#58. The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.
Steve Pavlina
#60. If you don't start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want to be on your death bed wondering, 'WHAT IF? WHAT IF I would've quit letting life pass me by and just went for it?!' JUST GO FOR IT! LIVE ALL OUT!
Shay Dawkins
#61. What life is this? Living in a world of hatred and lies, breathing the same air the dead breathed once, knowing we will wake up one day and find ourselves gone from time and space, and yet we still breathe the air without trembling from the thought.
Nour Zikra
#62. Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.
Mark Lawrence
#63. Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.
Parul Wadhwa
#64. Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.
Kami Garcia
#65. It's ironic..here is life passing, like clouds drifting over the sky, yet they don't see what's in front of them. They believe there is something more substantial going on in that little screen in their hands.
Katie Kacvinsky
#66. In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.
Gloria Steinem
#67. The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
Tom Robbins
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