Top 100 Lives Is Quotes
#1. The general perception of writers' lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#2. The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
Brian Tracy
#3. Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
Countee Cullen
#4. Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.
Jim Harrison
#5. The true tragedy in most people's lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.
Earl R. Smith II
#6. If God saved my life, why didn't he save their lives? Is my life so much more valuable? So I'm special ... and they're
not?
Amy Harmon
#7. Staleness is an indication that something in out lives is out of step with God.
Oswald Chambers
#8. No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington
#9. Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.
Alonzo King
#10. Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?
Philip K. Dick
#11. For some people the remark, "You're just like your mother [or father]," is enough to pick a fight. For a Christian, the greatest testimony of God's grace in our lives is the observation, "You're just like your Father.
Gloria Furman
#12. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
Bill Watterson
#13. Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
#14. Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that
Bruce H. Lipton
#16. Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.
Anna Akhmatova
#17. The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.
Rory McIlroy
#18. God's presence in our lives is the peace of mind and joy at heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider's nature. It's instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive?
Joseph Campbell
#20. Knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.
Lianne Downey
#21. What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.
Stephen Schwartz
#22. The worst thing of having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
Fredrik Backman
#23. But it's strange, isn't it?" Eri said.
"What is?"
"That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.
Haruki Murakami
#24. So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
#25. The course of our lives is determined by how we react
what we decide and what we do
at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.
Daisaku Ikeda
#26. The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.
Wendell Berry
#27. The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.
Guy Finley
#28. The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love.
Michael John LaChiusa
#29. Not caring for their lives' is it?
Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.
Marcel Proust
#30. For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#31. The most valuable skill we can learn in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
#32. We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.
Norman Lock
#34. The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
T. Harv Eker
#35. Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?
Chris Messina
#36. the most finite, limited resource in our lives is time. We only have a finite amount of time to live. Why waste it?
Timothy A. Pychyl
#37. I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.
C.S. Lewis
#38. The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.
Keith Haring
#39. Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
Myriam Miedzian
#40. The day we get comfortable with our lives is the day we sacrifice adventure.
Marissa Haddlin
#41. We care about knowledge because knowledge is crucial to a worthwhile, valuable life. The questions of epistemology may be abstract, but their importance to our lives is vital.
Duncan Pritchard
#42. Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11
Richard J. Foster
#43. Christianity isn't moving people's lives today. What's moving people's lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It's a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn't even an ideal that anybody's fighting for.
Joseph Campbell
#44. The hardest calling in our lives is to be truly ourselves.
J.R. Rim
#45. The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation ... Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.
Billy Graham
#46. History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.
Robert Heilbroner
#47. The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
Marianne Williamson
#48. Arise you little glancing wings, and sing your infant joy!
Arise and drink your bliss, for every thing that lives is holy!
William Blake
#49. For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#50. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.
Jean Liedloff
#51. If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God. The Spirit's primary vehicle for moving and speaking in our lives is the Scriptures
Anonymous
#52. The light of God's presence in our lives is a purifying flame that will draw us near to Him.
Billy Graham
#53. Finding out how the rest of the world lives is a normal part of rumschpringe. I didn't think it was up to my father-or my bishop-to squash that kind of curiosity.
Mary Ellis
#54. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.
Brandon Cox
#55. In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.
Bill Gates
#56. To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing ...
Gertrude Stein
#57. The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.
Phyllis Rose
#58. How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.
Tom Robbins
#59. It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
Richard Paul Evans
#60. What we are is God's gift to us. What we do with our lives is our gift to Him. He accepts us as we are. He's not going to judge us on the basis of what He has given someone else, but on the basis of what we have done with what He has given us. Never be discouraged by what you don't have. Having
Warren W. Wiersbe
#61. All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
Meher Baba
#62. For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. Politicians are much like aging authors and older women. The dangerous phase in their lives is when they are no longer content with the respect of friends but demand the adulation of an audience.
Michael Dobbs
#64. The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.
Jennifer Fox
#65. The prime purposes of our lives is to help others, love others, and be kind to others.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
Andre Comte-Sponville
#67. Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present
Paulo Coelho
#68. Nothing in this world, not even the most mundane moments of our lives, is without meaning, nor is any of it lost forever.
Dean Koontz
#69. I just thought we'd be doing something ... " "Bigger?" Prophet asked, and without waiting, said, "Saving lives is always big." "There's no one to save, Prophet." It took everything Prophet had not to punch Tom. "There's always someone to save.
S.E. Jakes
#70. The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.
Zadie Smith
#71. The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.
Sharon Gannon
#72. The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#73. The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.
Nicolas Berggruen
#74. Just seeing other people, people getting on with their normal lives, is such a hard thing after you've lost someone so close to you.
Jennifer Shaw Wolf
#75. We measure our success of love in the images of love. But those images are static. And it's a hopeless project, because our love will never be like that image. The actual reality of love in our lives is much more chaotic.
Pernille Fischer Christensen
#76. Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
Yoko Ono
#77. Researchers have found that the way people feel about the stress in their lives is a far more powerful predictor of their general health - whether they're more likely to be depressed, anxious, smoke cigarettes, or overeat - than any other measure.
Brigid Schulte
#78. That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
Confucius
#79. The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#80. The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
Dalai Lama
#81. I am convinced that our struggle to see God at work in our lives is not a result of his lack of work, but rather of our lack of attention to it.
Mike Ashcraft
#82. When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.
Frederick Lenz
#83. We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.
Vincent Louis Carrella
#84. One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.
Sterling W. Sill
#85. The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...
Sherwood Anderson
#86. The glory of God in our lives is the experience and expression of the presence of God
Patrick Oben
#87. Perhaps the most indispensable thing we can do as
human beings, every day of our lives, is remind ourselves and others
of our complexity, fragility, finiteness, and uniqueness.
Antonio R. Damasio
#88. The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
Simon Sinek
#89. There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
#90. We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.
Dorothy Gilman
#91. The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells - there is no Deity.
R.H. Blyth
#92. To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
Allan Gurganus
#94. Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.
Wayde Goodall
#95. You don't have to look for trouble. It will find you. And when that happens"--Luna disappeared, but her voice continued--"keep up that great spirit and make a plan, because nine lives is just a state of mind.
Chris Kurtz
#96. All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Tom Peters
#97. I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
Jesse Ventura
#98. We're all dying from the moment we're born. That's all we do our entire lives, is die.
Megan Hart
#99. I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?
Matthew McConaughey
#100. Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
Tom Baker
