Top 100 Quotes About True Life
#1. It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny
Paulo Coelho
#2. Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.
Karen Karbo
#3. True life begins with a dream to dazzle, a purpose to live for, and a plan to realize it.
Debasish Mridha
#4. A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window ... I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
Garry Disher
#5. I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
Marcel Proust
#6. We are the dead. Our only true life in in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.
George Orwell
#7. No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
William Gilmore Simms
#8. O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#9. Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true - life wasn't supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn't some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.
Tao Lin
#10. In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.
Leo Tolstoy
#11. The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner
John Calvin
#12. There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
Anne Tyler
#13. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.
Cesar Chavez
#14. By asking for guidance, we can begin to break away from what we were taught and find our own true life direction.
Catherine Carrigan
#15. A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Without dreams there are no hope to make the dreams a reality and without hope there is no true life; hope is our vehicle that takes our dreams and turn it to be our happy life
Hisham Fawzi
#17. Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan
#18. We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.
Chuck Palahniuk
#19. We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
George Orwell
#20. It is only when we let go of life as we know it that we discover true life - the glorious plan laid out by God.
Max Lucado
#21. In any true life you must go and be exposed outside the small circle that encompasses two or three heads in the same history of love.
Saul Bellow
#22. Death is just the door through which we experience true Life.
Todd Stocker
#23. All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
Amy Carmichael
#24. Without dreams there is no hope to make the dream a reality and without hope there is no true life
Hisham Fawzi
#25. Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.
Proverbs 4:23
Bible
#26. Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.
Nhat Hanh
#27. The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
Don DeLillo
#28. True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.
Peter F. Hamilton
#29. To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.
Bill Bright
#30. When you say you fear death you are really saying that you fear you have not lived your true life.
Steve Chandler
#31. I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ and you will find true life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#32. Without the power to concentrate that
is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.
Arnold Bennett
#33. Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.
Lynn Marie Sager
#35. Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.
Anne Tyler
#36. True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents.
Foz Meadows
#37. Home Run portrays the church in its beauty
true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.
Joyce Meyer
#38. Dear Friends: As one who has experimented extensively with life in the home and community, using real people in true-life situations, I doubt that any playthings could prepare a child for one millionth of what is going to hit him in the teeth, ready or not.
Kurt Vonnegut
#39. This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.
Swami Vivekananda
#40. But it was time to realize that I wasn't Cinderella, and no matter how hard I wished it were true, life wasn't a fairy tale where everyone lives happily ever after.
Michelle Madow
#43. The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.
Julie Klausner
#44. Don't be sad by what you see
It's true life has it's miseries
But one thing's always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.
Sami Yusuf
#45. We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than hope, the deed than the hesitation, true life and not mere sickly potentialities.
A.S. Byatt
#46. Having a coach or mentor is nothing more than sharing life's experiences, no amount of education can substitute true life experience
Lachlan McPherson
#47. Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac
#48. The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde
#49. It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
#50. A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. Everyone have big dreams they would want to see come alive, but not everyone has the strength to awaken the dreams to true life
Nathanael Kanyinga
#52. Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Franz Marc
#53. I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.
Alex Newell
#54. Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
Don DeLillo
#55. I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.
Bjorn Borg
#56. It's true though, that the impulse to give freely to the world seems to be at the bottom of the well of human intentions where the purest and clearest water arises. To be able to offer back what the world has given you, but shaped a little by your touch - that makes a true life.
John Tarrant
#57. It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart .
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
#59. It's in that place that we're reminded that true life comes when we're willing to admit that we've reached the end of ourselves, we've given up, we've let go, we're willing to die to all of our desires to figure it out and be in control. We lose our life, only to find it.
Rob Bell
#60. Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.
Jon Foreman
#61. To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.
Peprah Boasiako
#62. I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.
Tama J. Kieves
#63. The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.
Emmanuel Levinas
#64. Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.
Tom McCarthy
#65. Attentativeness is the path to true life.
Indifference is the path to death.
The attentive do not die.
The indifferent are as if they are dead already
Dhammapala
#66. This world is not the sum total of God's resources
on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
Janet Erskine Stuart
#67. Only one knows, speaks, and lives according to what he has within. One who has the universe within him knows the true meaning of the universe. Living as the will of the universe by becoming the universe is true life.
Woo Myung
#68. Take hold of kettle, broom, and pan, then you'll surely get a man! Shop and office leave alone, Your true life's work lies at home. - COMMON GERMAN RHYME OF THE 1930S
David R. Gillham
#70. Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.
George Zimmerman
#71. True life balance takes concentration, confidence, self-esteem, a positive mental attitude, and self-control. It's a challenge, for sure, but it's a challenge worth taking on.
Jay Rifenbary
#72. I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
Rachel Platten
#74. Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our love, whose Joy is our joy, whose Peace is our peace, whose burdens are our burdens, whose Will is our will. Self is emptied into God, and God in-fills it.
Thomas Raymond Kelly
#75. Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness.
Catherine Carrigan
#76. True life begins when you resolve not to quit, downplay failure, stop apologizing of who you're, and refrain from appeasing others. Begin living!
Assegid Habtewold
#77. Psychologists were such voyeurs. They got off on true-life confessions, and then expected us to trust them. Not likely. Grabbing
Skye Warren
#78. I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs ... songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.
Harlan Howard
#79. Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
William Ralph Inge
#80. I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.
Mary E. DeMuth
#81. We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
Thomas Merton
#82. The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!
George MacDonald
#84. Let us return to Jesus' prayer that, through the unity of the disciples, the world may recognize him as the one sent by the Father. This recognizing and believing is not something merely intellectual; it is about being touched by God's love and therefore changed; it is about the gift of true life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#85. I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film.
Lisa Vidal
#86. True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#88. We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
John Eldredge
#89. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#90. It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#91. True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
#93. Mukesh calls me his true life partner ... I just enjoy being Mukesh's wife.
Nita Ambani
#94. True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.
Marcel Proust
#95. So as one sin of Adam brought the punishment of death to all people, so too one good act that Christ did makes all people right with God, bringing them true life . One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. In the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made right.
Saint Paul The Apostle
#96. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
Julia Hill
#97. Life ain't all burritos and strippers, my friend. - TRUE FACT
Darynda Jones
#98. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.
Ron Baratono
#99. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#100. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
Garth Brooks