Top 100 Life Works Quotes
#1. We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
Margot Kidder
#2. That's how life works. You know it when you know it.
They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.
They're on a sixteen-line highway.
Driving west.
James Frey
#3. Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#4. Life Works in a Very Simple Way. Resist it less and allow it unfold the way it wants. Use your power of allowing.
Raphael Zernoff
#5. Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#6. It probably wouldn't last. It never does. But it would come back around again. That's how life works. And that's why it's important to treasure the peaceful times-so you can persevere through the other kind.
Jean Ferris
#7. AFFIRM TO YOURSELF
I believe in the way life works. That which takes care of everything, even the creatures at the bottom of the sea, will take care of me too.
Sirshree
#8. Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.
Beth Moore
#9. People come to our lives, people leave our lives; they teach something to us, we teach something to them! Life works this way!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
Anne Lamott
#11. I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
Louise L. Hay
#12. Buffett and Munger joke that envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that isn't any fun. "Envy is crazy," remarks Munger. "It's 100 percent destructive. . . . If you get those things out of your life early, life works a lot better.
Guy Spier
#13. Life is so much easier than you think it is, and as you come to understand the way life works, and the power you have inside you, you will experience the magic of life in its fullness.
Rhonda Byrne
#14. Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.
Werner Erhard
#15. You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.
Jim Rohn
#16. Life works however the hell you make it work.
Maya Banks
#17. It's odd the way life works, the way it mutates and wanders, the way one thing becomes another.
Siri Hustvedt
#18. And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.
Grant Morrison
#19. Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.
Sri Aurobindo
#21. I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
Randy Schekman
#22. It's funny how life works like a seesaw: Some things go up while others plunge down.
Sophie Kinsella
#23. There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.
Michael Mina
#24. The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.
Moby
#25. That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.
Louise Hay
#26. I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage ... funny how life works out like that.
Rachel Roy
#27. Life works in mysterious ways, and I believe one of the biggest challenges and successes is to let go and let it be.
Brittany Burgunder
#28. I kept waiting for something to happen, which isn't how life works. In closed environments, everything just repeats.
Kiera Cass
#29. Every challenge in your life works out in the long run. If you can adopt this mindset, you'll face your challenges with the knowledge and courage that it all works out in the end. You'll no longer fear them and you'll look forward to the lessons to be learned from every experience ...
James A. Murphy
#30. Life works in mysterious ways, Ember, and the secret is to not think too hard on the why or how of it, and to not mourn what is no longer, but live: live hard and love hard.
L.A. Fiore
#31. Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.
Terry Brooks
#32. It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what it is that you love to do, and I'm happy that I've sort of discovered something that makes me really happy.
Haylie Duff
#33. My dear, what in your life has ever come close to fair? That's not how this life works.
Katherine Reay
#34. I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
Buzz Osborne
#35. I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
Ken Blanchard
#36. Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
Werner Erhard
#37. I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.
Darren McCarty
#38. One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness
Anne Lamott
#39. Best way to learn how life works is to have the guts to truly go out and live it!
Robin Sharma
#40. Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#41. Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.
Junot Diaz
#42. Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.
Selwyn Hughes
#43. Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.
Lily Collins
#44. The only one who is responsible for the way your life works out is you. Kamu nggak bisa mengubah masa lalu, tapi kamu bisa bertanggung jawab terhadap masa depan kamu. All it takes is a decision.
Nina Ardianti
#45. Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.
Mary Morrissey
#46. If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#47. Love is the miracle cure," she says, "And when you are willing to love yourself more, every area of your life works out better.
Louise L. Hay
#48. If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Louise Hay
#49. Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
Jerome K. Jerome
#50. Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a single book with one unified view of who God is and how life works.
Anonymous
#51. I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
Natasha Lyonne
#52. Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#53. People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
Ringo Starr
#54. It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
Gayle Forman
#55. Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
Jim Rohn
#56. It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
Lauren Oliver
#57. The concept of a Miracle, that is, an event that takes place somehow beyond the scope of functional Reality, is absurd. . . There cannot be a true miracle. There can only be events that appear miraculous when you don't really understand How Life Works.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#58. The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst
#59. And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that's harmless, isn't it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies ... it's just a word.
Terry Pratchett
#60. Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.
Giuliana Rancic
#61. I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
Ashwin Sanghi
#62. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
#63. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.
Adriana Locke
#64. I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.
Rick Santelli
#65. MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#66. 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
#67. Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.
Novalis
#68. The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
Hillary Clinton
#69. Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.
Philip Guston
#70. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.
Nick Vujicic
#71. I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
Ian MacKaye
#72. A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
Robert A. Heinlein
#73. It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.
Katie Roiphe
#74. But a lot of the time that's how it works, life gets so dark until we think all the light's gone out of us. But it's there, it's always there. If we just open the door a crack the light comes pouring in.
Ben Fountain
#75. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.
Emily St. John Mandel
#76. Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.
Ken Dodd
#77. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
Chuck Palahniuk
#78. Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.
Paulo Coelho
#79. Tracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve
Darren Hardy
#80. When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
Hannibal Buress
#81. Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough. And you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
John Travolta
#82. 7:23 You are not for sale (to the law of works). The ransom God paid for your freedom now binds you to the lordship of his love. The sign over your life says, SOLD!
Francois Du Toit
#83. Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.
Praveen Kumar
#84. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
#85. A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.
Paula McLain
#86. Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. - EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring,
R. Scott Bakker
#87. I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie
#88. The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J.M. Coetzee
#89. I feel hurt or attacked, jealousy or fear, what works for me is thinking of life as an adventure. This way, I remember that all these feelings or situations are part of a greater whole and that they need to be there to make life exactly what it is.
Richard Brancatisano
#90. I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
Robert Caro
#91. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#92. Into every life crap will fall. Most of us do as well as possible, and some of it works okay, and we try to release that which doesn't and which is never going to.
Anne Lamott
#93. It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.
Jo-Ann L. Tremblay
#94. My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
Edward Tufte
#95. As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
Jones Very
#96. The Prime Directive is a nice ideal, but have you noticed it never works in practice?
Una McCormack
#97. Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you on a subtle level to bring into your life more of what brings you joy.
Genevieve Gerard
#98. My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
Mike Leigh
#99. Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#100. God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.
Dawson Trotman
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