Top 100 Quotes About Life Itself
#1. Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.
David Frawley
#2. Life itself is energy,and energy creates the flow of life that cannot be contained.Energy is ceaselessly in motion.You,I and all phenomena are ultimately manifestations of energy.
Ilchi Lee
#3. Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.
Robertson Davies
#4. When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in "the beyond" - in nothingness - then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Just make the best of what you do have in life and the rest will follow. Gratitude for life itself is everything.
The best is yet to come
Timothy Pina
#6. Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#7. Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis De Rougemont
#8. Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Maria Montessori
#11. Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.
H.D.F. Kitto
#12. Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
Margaret Halsey
#13. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
#14. than life itself. Then Christ said: 'I will show you a simpler way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.
Paulo Coelho
#15. But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.
John Calvin
#16. Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.
Anthony Esolen
#17. Alpha sets the scale of nature
the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code.
Frank Close
#18. Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.
Hanya Yanagihara
#19. You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
Alexander Alekhine
#20. Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
Frederick Buechner
#21. If there was magic alive in this world, Julian thought after the first couple of minutes, it was surely present in the waltz danced with someone one loved more than life itself.
Mary Balogh
#22. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." - Hans Christian Andersen
Laura Kenyon
#23. Some people use bullfights, some the Mass, some art in order to ritualize or transform death into life or at least meaning. But my terror is that life itself is a ritual transforming everything into death.
Marilyn French
#24. Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
Julia Cameron
#25. Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.
Julio Cortazar
#26. I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.
Steve James
#27. Life itself is a journey after all, and what matters most is not what you are getting, but who you are becoming.
Robin S. Sharma
#28. Will something else. Have dreams and believe in them. They don't have to come true. They are just as true as a dream is. Life itself is a dream.
Frederick Lenz
#29. I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.
David Rakoff
#30. As you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself
Richard Carlson
#32. Throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art ... today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.
Van Deren Coke
#33. Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape.
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.
Gore Vidal
#36. But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.
Anna Howard Shaw
#37. Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Henry Miller
#38. Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
#39. Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
Joseph O'Neill
#40. The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right
it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.
Pope Benedict XVI
#41. Being thankful for life itself is a way of making life better. When we look away from our problems, even for a short time, and generate joy in our hearts, we find that the world seems to change a bit.
John Harricharan
#42. I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.
W.S. Merwin
#43. I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#44. There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
#46. Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.
Hal Zina Bennett
#47. There's nothing better in life than being a parent, there's nothing more beautiful in life than women, there's nothing more precious in life than time, and there's nothing in life more magical than life itself.
Ben Tolosa
#48. Life itself is a frightening image for every human being.... being strong in life isn't easy.
Inuyasha
#49. The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
Rabindranath Tagore
#50. They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
Charles Bukowski
#51. What more really can be at stake except life itself, which is why maybe artists are always equating the two and driving everybody crazy by insisting that art is life. Well. Cut us some slack. It's harder work than one might imagine, and riskier, and takes a very special and dear kind of mad person.
Peter Heller
#52. For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#53. We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.
Rachel Pollack
#54. Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Ruth St. Denis
#55. All subjects do not reside in neat little compartments, but are continuous and inseparable from the one big subject we have been put on Earth to study, which is life itself.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
Hanya Yanagihara
#57. I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
Steven Spielberg
#58. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.
Pope John Paul II
#59. Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose principles are not yet firm and whose convictions are not yet strong and unshakeable.
Karl Marx
#60. Life itself demands that from you and I. If we respond accordingly
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.
Gregory Orr
#62. A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning, and the story she tells is as complicated as life itself. This is a richly satisfying novel.
Margot Livesey
#63. Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
Seamus Heaney
#64. Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.
Kenneth Minogue
#65. My life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I pick that verb with care - of the Zen experience has been a by-result of following my own rather natural path of extreme Zenlessness.
J.D. Salinger
#66. Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
Jason Mraz
#67. Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
Comte De Lautreamont
#68. There can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.
M.F.K. Fisher
#69. I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.
Peter Beard
#70. I love you," he said. "I want you more than life itself. Forever." He brushed a hand across her cheek. "And I will take care of you always.
Chelsea Fine
#71. Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75
Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#73. Shh," he whispered. "You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#74. About forty per cent of all strokes are unexplained. They're a mystery, like life itself.
Robert McCrum
#75. There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
Madame De Stael
#76. I love being a star more than life itself.
Janis Joplin
#77. I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
Eva Gabor
#78. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#79. All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.
Michael Billig
#80. I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.
F.K. Preston
#81. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#82. Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Thomas Browne
#83. There's a fundamental stupidity in mankind which is as eternal as life itself.
Gustave Flaubert
#84. No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. Outbox and its inherent transient nature - is it a take on life itself ? momentary, independent, fleeting and somewhat meaningless dwelling for all creations on their way out - to sent items.
Sunil Raina
#86. I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
Neale Donald Walsch
#87. What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.
Bob Dole
#88. We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
Seneca The Younger
#89. To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ... it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.
Julia Glass
#90. I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself
Robert Zubrin
#91. All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.
Dennis McKenna
#92. Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment ... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce
#93. Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.
Billy Graham
#94. The driver seems to have no regard for traffic lights, or other cars, or pedestrians, or roads, or even life itself.
Karina Halle
#95. For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
Albert Claude
#96. Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
John Dewey
#97. The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.
Jay Maisel
#98. There is a patience of the wild
dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself
that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;
Jack London
#99. Life itself is an unsolved mystery, said the clergyman gravely.
Agatha Christie
#100. Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
Mary McLeod Bethune
