Quotes About One's Life

#1. Every hour of temptation in one's life has origin. Either from the flesh or the devil .

Osunsakin Adewale

#2. Morning is one of the best times for thinking. When one has just woken up, but hasn't yet gotten out of bed, it is a perfect time to look up at the ceiling, consider one's life, and wonder what the future will hold.

Lemony Snicket

#3. One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!

Pope Francis

#4. In Joy, to lose one's life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

Geoffrey Wood

#5. Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Betty White

#6. What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.

James Maslow

#7. One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.

Dorothy Dunnett

#8. Peeking through the window, he saw empty shelves. Strange how a place so associated with one's life could vanish so fast.

John J. Kelley

#9. We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Joseph O'Neill

#10. Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

Barbara Delinsky

#11. And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

E.L. Doctorow

#12. Kestrel could say that she'd learned that one's life is also the lives of others. A wrong is not an egg, separate unto itself and sealed. She could say that she understood the wrong in ignoring a wrong. She could say this, but the truth was that she should have learned it long before.

Marie Rutkoski

#13. Trust can be one of life's greatest rewards, but it can also be the cause for the most destruction in one's life.

John-Talmage Mathis

#14. How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.

Mary Balogh

#15. If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Kenny Werner

#16. To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

Stephen MacKenna

#17. One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one's life.

Mary Balogh

#18. Human beings have freedom toward death and the right to death, in the sense of sacrifice, but only when the good sought through sacrifice, and not the destruction of one's own life, is the reason for risking one's life.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. Recovery [from codependency] may not always be comfortable at first for the other people in one's life. But it is always worth it because, actually, nobody ever respects a 'doormat'.

David Stafford

#20. Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one's life.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.

Marian Keyes

#22. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#23. There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.

Aleksandra Layland

#24. I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#25. To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

Jose Marti

#26. There are times when one's life appears to be a stage. People come, people go. They come in order to go, and go with no intent of return. When they return, they return as one's past. A past that would make you feel that the present is false.

Vijay Tendulkar

#27. The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel

#28. The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game.

Timothy Shriver

#29. One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

Madame De Stael

#30. That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

Benjamin Disraeli

#31. Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

Rosanne Cash

#32. it is strange, exceedingly strange, to know that one's life has been fulfilled. Yet

Ursula K. Le Guin

#33. Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#34. Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

Luke The Evangelist

#35. What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

Stacy Peralta

#36. The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Gerry Spence

#37. One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...

Marthe Bibesco

#38. There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens.

Kristen Britain

#39. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Abraham Lincoln

#40. The course of one's life is a difficult thing."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year

Yasunari Kawabata

#41. One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life.

Aimee Bender

#42. One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Agatha Christie

#43. There are a few scattered moments in one's life when everything seems possible.

Paul Russell

#44. The love of one's life was never that which you wished for or hoped for or forgot or lost or mistook; it was the partner you spent your long days with ...

Kameron Hurley

#45. Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

Rush Limbaugh

#46. The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed ... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Garson Kanin

#47. Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Michael Ayrton

#48. The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

Li Bai

#49. God's Word not only gives authority to one's ministry; it provides a solid foundation for one's life.

Billy Graham

#50. One's 'life' is 'fractured'; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.

Dada Bhagwan

#51. Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Marcus Aurelius

#52. To be unattached in every phase of one's life is indeed full enlightened bliss of the Self (Purna samadhi)!

Dada Bhagwan

#53. But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire.

W. Somerset Maugham

#54. Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

Paul A. Offit

#55. I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

Nicholas Winton

#56. Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life

Sunday Adelaja

#57. Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Guillermo Del Toro

#58. The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

George Eliot

#59. Joy is an important element of happiness. It is sometimes the difference between striving and thriving. One must nurture the joy in one's life so that it reaches full bloom.

Maya Angelou

#60. The key lies in finding the delicious flavorings in one's life, no matter how fancy your blue jeans may or may not be.

Nick Offerman

#61. To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Mencius

#62. Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

Jasper Fforde

#63. Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one's life by submitting to Almighty God (Allah) in heart, soul and deed.

Raad

#64. The true moments of one's life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.

Chris Cleave

#65. no worthwhile effort in one's life is either a success or a failure.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#66. The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

John Cheever

#67. To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

Albert Camus

#68. faith is not a static, theoretical concept, but rather is central to one's life and is thus developed carefully and allowed to flourish in all areas of life, it becomes measurable in its effects.

Thomas E. Woodward

#69. What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

D.H. Lawrence

#70. That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

#71. The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Billy Graham

#72. Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method formaking one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#73. Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

Wayne Dyer

#74. While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

John Hodgman

#75. It often takes the smallest weapon to kill the largest animal, in the same way it takes the tiniest stroke of time, not years, to change one's life.

Ashish Jaiswal

#76. It is not uncommon for fighters' camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one's life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.

Norman Mailer

#77. To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Irvin D. Yalom

#78. No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

Michael K. Williams

#79. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. it is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.

Oscar Wilde

#80. Imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

Hector Berlioz

#81. Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Mahatma Gandhi

#82. What was money when one's life was at stake? We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom.

Miklos Nyiszli

#83. It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

Alfred Douglas

#84. It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

Andrew Sean Greer

#85. It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

Celia Green

#86. One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Djuna Barnes

#87. What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster.

Ayn Rand

#88. To make him important in one's life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

Carrie Fisher

#89. All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment

Sunday Adelaja

#90. There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

Pierce Brosnan

#91. It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

Chanakya

#92. In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Marcel Proust

#93. It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Albert Camus

#94. There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits

S. N. Behrman

#95. Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#96. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

Oscar Wilde

#97. But though he could not recapture it, he could remember it, as one remembers a vivid experience at some period of one's life when one was in effect a different person.

George Orwell

#98. One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#99. When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

Eliphas Levi

#100. I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Loretta Young